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I am trying to feel sorry for the poor burdened Large ISP.....:) If it was just a matter of money, I would expect the large ISPs could add to their revenue streams by offering peering at a price to those networks they would otherwise not peer with. We have all heard that they are deluged by requests, right? Maybe there are not enoungh networks interested in such a service to make it worthwhile. Wait a minute here, I thought they were overwelmed by requests.... Personally I question this idea of being deluged, after all there are only a small number of networks at MAE-East which I believe has more IPs than any other connection point. And the big guys *are* peered with many of the networks connected there, so there are only a dozen or so left to peer with. Maybe there is some kind of new math working here. And BTW, I have not found a single large ISP willing to sell bi-lateral peering to me and I *have* asked for price quotes on this. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DataXchange sales: 800-863-1550 http://www.dx.net Network Operations Center: 703-903-7412 -or- 888-903-7412 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote: > 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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