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Re: Peering point speed publicly available?

  • From: Richard A Steenbergen
  • Date: Thu Jul 01 22:37:44 2004

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:02:11PM -0400, Daniel Golding wrote:
> 
> Sometimes it can give a hint. However, if the ISPs are following the
> ³interface name² convention, you¹ll get something like P3-1-2, which just
> tells you its Packet Over SONET. That can mean anything from OC-3 to OC-192.
> ³ge² could mean 10 gige :)

"ge" doesn't usually mean 10ge, for example the Juniper interface name is 
"xe". At the very least, you can tell the difference between Juniper and 
Cisco (pos2-3 vs. so-2-3-0).

> The "2488M" from glbx is nice, but not too common.

Also not always maintained... I've personally submitted about 30 nags for 
PTRs which said 622M but which I knew were really 2488M, but I buy transit 
from them so I have a vested interest in accurate data. :)

Note that GX doesn't have that information on peering PTRs. Some other
folks don't maintain capacity information on their backbone links, but do
have it for peering circuits (such as Level 3). Then there are folks that
have slightly obscured, like Verio's p# entries which are STS codes (p1 =
oc3, p4 = oc12, etc).

> It would be so nice if this were standardized between all providers. But
> naming conventions are really political - they sometimes provoke huge
> fights even within providers.

Sounds like a NANOG talk presentation to me. I love a good debate between 
airport codes and clli codes (not!). :)

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