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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sprint peering policy
> > 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. > > Nor does it cost $0 on top of that $200 to buy transit. Really? I did not know that the quotes that I get do not say that they give me a free router and $0 install cost. > This may hold > true to some degree for a small-ish network, but probably not for a > larger one. Even factoring in depreciation, line cards, etc, I would > imagine you won't find OC3 transit in 4 cities from any ISP to be as > cheap as OC3 peering in 4 cities, for example. Add to that the chance > that, as a larger network, you'll probably be getting your pipes at > volume discounts. I can from the top of my head, without breaking NDA name at least 1 promising local ISP. > I never meant to imply that peering is 0-cost. I just don't agree with > the blanket statement that peering (or lack thereof) has no financial > impact. Peering networks, at this time, have very significant downside effect to fiancials that I can see, unless you are talking about UUNET, Sprint, AT&T, Level3, Q and C&W. Alex
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