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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Worldly Thoughts - Regionalizing Peering
> >Since these are designed to be regional exchanges, one would presume that > >transit is still available elsewhere. > > > >Even at the large carrier level, I should think that the priority NAPs, > >as well as the private interconnects, would contain complete information > >on the other networks to back up any failure to route at a regional exchange. > > Er, um, well yes, but ideally if you get peering from all the big > boys, you wouldn't need to purchase transit from someone. Did I mention purchase anywhere? I don't think I did. It's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is a set of places in the country where you have access to everything in your peers peoples network. > I think the idea of only exchanging local routes at any given regional > exchange is not a bad idea, but I don't see how it would really end up > working properly in a fluctuating environment. I see absolutely nothing wrong with it as long as normal engineering considerations are taken into account. These would include redundancy/fallover, among many other things. Dave -- Dave Siegel Sr. Network Engineer, RTD Systems & Networking (520)623-9663 x130 Network Consultant -- Regional/National NSPs [email protected] User Tracking & Acctg -- "Written by an ISP, http://www.rtd.com/~dsiegel/ for an ISP." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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