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RE: Sprint peering policy

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Thu Jun 27 20:15:59 2002 
At 08:00 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>
>> Pick a strategy and run with it.  Being a broadband provider in
>> SE Canada, I suggest sniffing out public peering in NYC and CHI
>> for a start.  IIRC, Hotmail and Y! are at AADS and will peer with
>> most anyone -- there's a good chunk of traffic.  Now Akamaize
>> your network if you haven't already.
>
>I'm already working on NYC.  For Chicago an OC3 connection to AADS would
>cost more than the long-haul back to Toronto.  I also prefer ethernet
>peering instead of ATM.  Equinix looks like the best option in Chicago,
>but most long-haul carriers are in 600 Federal and not 350 Cermak.
>
>As for Akamai, I've found very little of my traffic (<5%) is
>Akamai.  Akamai is at NYIIX anyway, so once I get into 25 Broadway I'd
>peer with them.

Mind if I ask how you got the traffic stats for Akamai?


>-Ralph

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TTFN,
patrick