Re: Akamai Peering

[Paul Emmons <paul () emmons mx>]

Akamai isn't supporting 10g ports on IXPs.  I'd be surprised if the allowed
it on PNIs.  As for not being on the IXPs, that's odd.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:23 AM Jawaid Bazyar <jbazyar () verobroadband com>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> We had Akamai servers in our data center for many years until a couple
> years ago, when they said they’d changed their policies and decommissioned
> the servers.
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> I understand that, maintaining many server sites and being responsible for
> that hardware, even if you pay nothing for power or collocation, must be
> costly. And at the time, we didn’t have much traffic to them.
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> Today, however, we’re hitting 6 Gbps with them nightly. Not sure what
> traffic it is they’re hosting but it’s surely video of some sort.
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> We are in the same data center with them, Edgeconnex Denver, and they
> refuse to peer because they say their minimum traffic level for peering is
> 30 Gbps.
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> Their peeringdb entry says “open peering”, and in my book that’s not open
> peering.
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> So this seems to be exactly backward from where every other major content
> provider is going – free peering with as many eyeball networks as possible.
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> Google – no bandwidth minimum, and, they cover costs on 1st and every
> other cross connect
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> Amazon – peers are two Denver IX
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> Apple – peers at two Denver IX
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> Netflix – free peering everywhere
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> And, on top of that, Akamai is not at either of the two Denver exchange
> points, which push together probably half a terabit of traffic.
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> What is the financial model for Akamai to restrict peering this way?
> Surely it’s not the 10G ports and optics, which are cheap as dirt these
> days.
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> Doesn’t this policy encourage eyeballs to move this traffic to their
> cheapest possible transit links, with a potential degradation of service
> for Akamai’s content customers?
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> Thanks for the insight,
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> Jawaid
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