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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BigISP<-->SmallISP peerings
Zachary DeAquila <[email protected]> wrote: >Hrm. Does it matter if the small ISP already has transit with someone else? >In such a case, peering does nothing but shorten the path from SmallISP to >BigISP in order to no longer make it go through SmallISPs transit provider. Yes, but then from the point of view of large ISP the peering is of zero value. You see, it has to deliver packets to IXP anyway. OTOH, the load on routers, bloated configurations and engineering resources to support the additional peering are quite real. --vadim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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