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Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai
From: Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 12:20:39 -0600
Once upon a time, Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net> said:
I guess what I'm getting at is that it sounds like, if you cannot source the content locally to the peering link, there's not likely to be an internal connection to the same site from somewhere else within the Akamai network to deliver that content and, instead, the target network should expect it to come in over the "public Internet" via some other connection. Is that accurate?
I believe this is true of multiple content networks. For example, we peer with Amazon in a couple of locations, but a significant amount of traffic frmo their AS comes across transit rather than peering. In old terms, this is "hot potato" routing - where the source gets the traffic out of their network as soon as possible, rather than spend internal resources to carry it as close to the destination as they can. -- Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
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- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai, (continued)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Rod Beck (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Brandon Martin (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mehmet Akcin (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Brandon Martin (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Rod Beck (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Niels Bakker (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mark Tinka (Dec 09)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mike Hammett (Dec 09)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Chris Adams (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mark Delany (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Eric Kuhnke (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 07)