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Peering - Benefits?
- Subject: Peering - Benefits?
- From: michael.dillon at bt.com (michael.dillon at bt.com)
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:06:59 -0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
> On 30 Oct 2008, at 13:03, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von
> CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote:
>
> > internet exchanges are not per-se "redundant"
>
> Those networks who *choose* connect to peers via a single
> fabric, in a single location, will suffer a similar fate to
> those networks who single home to one transit provider.
Are you referring to his royal highness' network?
<http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS34109&v=4&view=2.0>
In any case, if you are really interested in achieving highly
reliable connectivity to the Internet, you need to start by
engineering it into your design. It's not just a matter of
choosing the right mix of peering and transit.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_system_design>
--Michael Dillon