If you dig into hijacking topic more, you will see that hijacks through Tier1 is same or even more popular than through IXes.
And if someone want to make me a transit offer for the price of DE-CIX (I do not even ask the price of DTEL-IX peering ;) ) - please, contact me off-list, I will be really happy. On 24.05.16 11:03, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> On May 16, 2016, at 4:29 PM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Router ports are expensive, so even if cross connects were free, you would >> still use the public switch fabric until you reach a traffic level that >> justifies a direct connection. The point of having a IX switch is that you >> can connect to many others with just one single router port. >> > > > The cost of an IX can be quite expensive actually. If you look at the RIPE > presentations from this week, there are stealth routing hijacks that come from > promiscuous peering as well as just the flat economics of connecting with a > 10GE > or 100GE interface and the cost per gigabit you assign to the IX port. These > are flat rate ports, unlike transit that may offer you a price and commit > rates > that allow you to reach everyone vs those just at the IX. > > I’m hoping I don’t get in trouble for sharing this, but this collaboration > exists > for europe on peering costs which are normalized in euro cents per megabit. > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18ztPX_ysWYqEhJlf2SKQQsTNRbkwoxPSfaC6ScEZAG8/edit#gid=0 > > - Jared >