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Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai


From: Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 10:32:40 -0500

On 12/7/19 7:19 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
Please see my email on Friday where I outlined a few of the dynamics at play.  Akamai isn’t just one thing, it’s an 
entire basket of products that all have their own resulting behaviors.  This is why even though you may peer with us 
directly you may not see 100% of the traffic from that interconnection.  (Take SSL for example, it’s often not served 
via the clusters in an ISP due to the security requirements we place on those racks, and this is something we treat 
very seriously!)

Does this mean that, if you peer with Akamai at some location, only content locally available at that location will come over that peering session with the rest coming via other means? Does Akamai not have private connectivity to their public peering points?
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Brandon Martin


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