North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: Sprint peering policy

  • From: alex
  • Date: Mon Jul 01 14:37:59 2002 
> Here's a fun exercise:  Drop your 5 busiest peers, and see if your
> operating costs a) increase, b) decrease, or c) remain the same.

If your full cost of peering with UUNET (including things such as
depreciation) comes to $400 per mbit/sec and via a promisig local ISP you
can get transit to UUNET at $200 per mbit/sec, your costs will decrease.
Just because the IP is free with peering does not mean that it costs $0 to
peer.

Alex