On May 3, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Will Hargrave wrote: > On 3 May 2010, at 05:27, Matthew Petach wrote: >> In Asia, there is a popular, but incorrectly named product offering >> that many ISPs sell called "domestic transit" which they sell >> for price $X; for "full routes" you often pay $2X-$3X. I grind my >> teeth every time I hear it, since "transit" doesn't mean "to select >> parts of the internet" in most people's eyes. It's really a paid >> peering offering, but no matter how much I try to correct people, >> the habit of calling it "domestic transit" still persists. :( > > > This is relatively common in europe too - normally under the name 'partial > transit'.
At least they are naming it correctly. > paid peering: [provider AS] + [providers customers] > partial transit: [provider AS] + [providers customers] + [providers peers] > > Pricing is typically 5-20% of the cost of full routes, and will provide in > the region of 40-120k routes. And pricing it correctly! Let's see, transit is at $1/Mbps, so I can get 120K prefixes for $0.05/Mbps? <snicker> -- TTFN, patrick