tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36036662.post6957005536778748279..comments2023-10-03T03:08:21.752-07:00Comments on Feedbach Forum: Peering at the edge and the role of the P2Ptomohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14410265141997282294noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36036662.post-22533025580971207632007-01-29T07:30:00.000-08:002007-01-29T07:30:00.000-08:00you might want to look at metalink ( http://www.me...you might want to look at metalink ( http://www.metalinker.org/ ). it's working on some of these things.Ant Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16072492089528943166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36036662.post-29854410719695769292007-01-25T23:12:00.000-08:002007-01-25T23:12:00.000-08:00anonymous,
thanks for the note. yes, my point wa...anonymous,<br /><br />thanks for the note. yes, my point was that for most networks, their routing rules are to dump the traffic as soon as possible. in the past this has been what happened at the tier one backbones because the LECs didn't have backbones, they were at the transport layer. that has changed and what we used to rely upon the LECs to provide can now be provide by the LEC, CLEC, Cable Co, Satellite Co, Wireless Co, etc. this presents the consumer with choice of what last mile medium they use and what provider they get that from. what is different now is that all of these last mile providers have national backbones with adequate capacity and all the control they want, as long as that packet stays on their network. the issue is that exchanging that traffic with a peer(ie, you have an open peering relationship at an exchange point like eqix, paix, mae', etc) likely adds latency, is not the most efficient in terms of cost(isp's pay for capacity too, both at the peering points and to their upstream provider or wavelength/fiber provider and not having to grow that capacity means not having to spend money to upgrade it. local peering, imho, is a savior to the LEC market as we know it today because if peering is taking place on it there is a big value and the propensity to move away from something that works and saves money is low when compared to the propensity of innovation as it relates to breeding disruptive technologies that, at the end of the day, are more efficient than what they replace. wrt to the political obstacles, this is kinda happening now on the content side with companies like yahoo, google, youtube, ebay and others who peer on local exchanges like the ones equinix runs in some of their sites. those aforementioned content companies, for lack of a better classification, peer with each other and with many many tier two and tier three isps. that was equinix' whole sales pitch with their gig-exchange service: Equinix Sales Guy; <br /><br />"Mr Yahoo you know you are paying transit costs to connect to Mr Hurricane Electric in the cage next door. Mr HE, you too are paying transit costs for your traffic to get to yahoo in the cage next to you. Why don't you too just run a fiber between each other and peer. That way you bypass all the transit costs and have greater control and scale of your interconnectivity. Wait, Mr HE, did you just say you would love to be able to do the same thing with google, ebay, youtube, EA, etc. etc.? Perhaps you may be better off connecting into equinix' exchange switching fabric via a gig port that can be subnetted and provide you with a single connection that will aggregate all of your peering traffic to a single port run over a single cross connection from your router to equinix' switch. Cost? Yes, there is a cost for the port on the equinix switch but the point is that you can't afford not to do it, it's is single digit equivalent in $ per meg and give you the control and scale that large networks enjoy."tomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14410265141997282294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36036662.post-75294636592770148682007-01-25T20:29:00.000-08:002007-01-25T20:29:00.000-08:00pushing peering to the edge? hmm... have you thou...pushing peering to the edge? hmm... have you thought about the impact on traffic flow over the internet? Not to mention the political obstacles you need to overcome within each carrier to do this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com