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On Feb 14, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
Obvious as it is, if one of your peerings on an IX gets big in terms of in/out volumes, you HAVE to secure it by PNI. You need a way to prevent the IX's equipments from being a SPoFs between you and that peer. I'm not saying one should convert every single IX peering into a PNI, as I feel both are pretty much required: your smallest peers shall be secured on as many IXes as possible, your biggest ones via PNI. IX peering is mandatory to keep internet routing diversity up to par - and enable small ASes to grow. Also, it is a wrong assumption to state that IX will make you spare money on transit, from my perspective they should be seen as securing multiple narrower paths to the internet. Greg VILLAIN Independant Network & Telco Architecture Consultant
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