Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-23 Thread Deepak Jain
If direct connecting != peering then definitely. Maybe we need to say differentiate between: - Connected transit - Remote transit - Connected peering - Remote peering And agree that, by default, transit ~= remote transit peering ~= direct peering Without getting too complicated. transit is

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-23 Thread Richard Irving
Deepak Jain wrote: If direct connecting != peering then definitely. Maybe we need to say differentiate between: - Connected transit - Remote transit - Connected peering - Remote peering And agree that, by default, transit ~= remote transit peering ~= direct peering Without getting too

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-22 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Hmm. Interesting. I am (here is SFO area) DSL customer and DialUp customer. But I never received a notification from my provider(s), possible with free CD, explaining me (if I am a homewife, not an engineer, of course) what to do and how to prevent a problems. We have a lot of room for

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Michel Py wrote: Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: I assume Vijay meant the cost of a port for private peering, in which case if you private with all your peers and you have a lot of small peers thats going to be a lot of cost for a few kbps of traffic I'm having trouble

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-22 Thread Michel Py
where's the lot of cost? Stephen J. Wilcox This is private vs public.. Even if it's private, and assuming that you're clever enough not to peer for a modem's worth of traffic, the cost is a no-brainer, IMHO. Someone checks my math please: At $20 per megabit for transit (which I find very

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-22 Thread alex
where's the lot of cost? Stephen J. Wilcox This is private vs public.. Even if it's private, and assuming that you're clever enough not to peer for a modem's worth of traffic, the cost is a no-brainer, IMHO. Someone checks my math please: At $20 per megabit for transit (which I find

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-22 Thread Deepak Jain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where's the lot of cost? Stephen J. Wilcox This is private vs public.. Even if it's private, and assuming that you're clever enough not to peer for a modem's worth of traffic, the cost is a no-brainer, IMHO. Someone checks my math please: At $20 per megabit for transit

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-22 Thread Michel Py
Deepak Jain wrote: But that structure doesn't vary vastly if you'd traffic out that gig via transit vs direct connect. It does vary (and add lots of infrastructure) if you don't aggregate your traffic at IXes and instead use loops to bring transit to you instead of going to it. (say a few

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-22 Thread Tom Vest
On Apr 22, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Michel Py wrote: Deepak Jain wrote: But that structure doesn't vary vastly if you'd traffic out that gig via transit vs direct connect. It does vary (and add lots of infrastructure) if you don't aggregate your traffic at IXes and instead use loops to bring transit to

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Gary Hale
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:46 PM To: Gordon Cook; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be had for $20 per megabit per second? The smaller guys that don't buy transit buy

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Daniel Golding
On 4/20/04 1:34 AM, Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: Unless they have cheap access to a free NAP (TorIX, SIX, etc.), transit, even at higher prices, is probably be the best / cheapest way to reach the Internet. This is true, but there are plenty of other

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Daniel Golding
or pushers of data)? Gary -Original Message- From: Michel Py [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:46 PM To: Gordon Cook; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be had for $20

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread vijay gill
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:15:48AM +, Paul Vixie wrote: Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be had for $20 per megabit per second? anyone whose applications are too important to risk dependency on OPNs (other people's networks). OPNs also carry some of the consumers of

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Apr 20, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Daniel Golding wrote: On 4/20/04 1:34 AM, Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: Unless they have cheap access to a free NAP (TorIX, SIX, etc.), transit, even at higher prices, is probably be the best / cheapest way to reach the Internet. This

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: In many, many cases, especially for smaller providers, this is a spare FE on a switch which already exists. I assume Vijay meant the cost of a port for private peering, in which case if you private with all your peers and you have a lot of small

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Gary Hale
) Gary -Original Message- From: Daniel Golding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:36 AM To: Gary Hale; Michel Py; Gordon Cook; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit On 4/20/04 8:45 AM, Gary Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Apr 20, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: In many, many cases, especially for smaller providers, this is a spare FE on a switch which already exists. I assume Vijay meant the cost of a port for private peering, in which case if you

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Daniel Golding
Hale; Michel Py; Gordon Cook; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit On 4/20/04 8:45 AM, Gary Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is too simplistic ... It is not (simply) a matter of small vs. big or being on your own network from source

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Gary Hale
To: Gary Hale; Michel Py; Gordon Cook; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit On 4/20/04 8:45 AM, Gary Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is too simplistic ... It is not (simply) a matter of small vs. big or being on your own network from

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-20 Thread Michel Py
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: I assume Vijay meant the cost of a port for private peering, in which case if you private with all your peers and you have a lot of small peers thats going to be a lot of cost for a few kbps of traffic I'm having trouble parsing this. You connect your FE or GE port

Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-19 Thread Gordon Cook
Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be had for $20 per megabit per second? I last had a detailed look at peering and transit economics in the summer of 2002. It is pretty amazing to see what has happened to prices since then. I have a private mail list underway on this subject and

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-19 Thread Michel Py
Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be had for $20 per megabit per second? The smaller guys that don't buy transit buy the gigabit. Michel.

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-19 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:45 PM, Michel Py wrote: Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be had for $20 per megabit per second? The smaller guys that don't buy transit buy the gigabit. Then their traffic will not justify 1000s of $$ per month for lines, racks, and NAP connection. Unless they

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-19 Thread Paul Vixie
Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be had for $20 per megabit per second? anyone whose applications are too important to risk dependency on OPNs (other people's networks). -- Paul Vixie

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Gordon Cook wrote: Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be had for $20 per megabit per second? Isnt the companies still doped from the bubble in 2000-2001? Price example: You have three cities. Two 12400 GSRs per city, and OC192 to connect them, that's a total of

RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-19 Thread Michel Py
Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: Unless they have cheap access to a free NAP (TorIX, SIX, etc.), transit, even at higher prices, is probably be the best / cheapest way to reach the Internet. This is true, but there are plenty of other opportunities for peering, such as: both parties buy DS-3 class