2008/5/16 Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kai Chen wrote: > >> Hi, here is a quick question. >> 1. Beside public peering in IXP and private peering between two dedicated >> ASes, are there any other interconnection models in the current Internet? >> > > There is the model where all partcipants peer through agency of 3rd party. > That tends to be looked on as an extremely bad idea, but some regulatory > environments encourage or enforce that sort of behavior particularly around > the monopoly PTT.
I don't know if the 3rd party you mentioned is the IXP? > > > 2. How does private peering implement, just a router from each AS and a >> link >> inbetween? Do they have multi-access in one peering location? I mean one >> router from an AS peer with two/more routers from another AS? >> > > you'll find that the details vary between entities. some bi-lateral > relationships are going to require peering in more than one location, > require a minimum ammount of redundancy etc. depends on how business > critical the relationship is, how much traffic is being exchanged, the sized > of the networks involved etc. Sure, two ASs may peer with each other at multiple locations, I do want to know in each of these peering location, if there exist multi-access between these two ASes. > > > Cheers, >> _______________________________________________ >> NANOG mailing list >> NANOG@nanog.org >> http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog >> >> > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog