Re: a question about the economics of peering

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer (no email)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2001 - 08:18:14 EST


On Friday 30 November 2001, at 11 h 52,
Alex Rubenstein <> wrote:

> While speaking with them today, thier engineer and I got into a little bit
> of a disagreement as to why people peer with each other at public exchange
> points.

There is also an important reason to be connected at several exchange points: reliability. If you just have one transit provider, you're more vulnerable than with one transit provider plus a variety of peerings, which will still carry at least part of the traffic if the main provider fails.








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