On 15 September 2015 at 06:44, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > On 14/Sep/15 19:42, Paul Thornton wrote: > >> >> >> You don't have the entire routing table @LINX yet :) > > And depending on your operation, transit could be cheaper than peering.
And peering can be cheaper than transit [1] :) This is especially true at lower traffic volumes as one major gain with peering is that you pay for a port rather than a specific CDR and you can use as much bandwidth on that port as you like (although you can buy less that the physical port speed these days but not at evey exchange). Also if you only have a handful of AS's that count's for %-major of your egress/ingress traffic then if you can peer at an exchange with all those guys present and peer with them you can offload the bulk of your traffic without the need for a CDR on a transit link providing global access when you don't need all that visibility. Cheers, James. [1] These are genuine figures I have tweaked so they don't resemble any IXP I have connect to so there isn't any obvious bias etc.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i2bPZDt75hAwcR4iKMqaNSGIeM-nJSWLZ6SLTTnuXNs/edit?pli=1#heading=h.qfxzw1efv02w Usual YMMV caveat, in the UK we are rather spoilt compared to some parts of the world with LoNAP and LINX.
