IXes and AS length

[ammar at fastreturn.net (Ammar Zuberi)]

Thatâ??s exactly what I was thinkingâ?¦ Equinix doesnâ??t really have anything to do with that part of the peering ecology.

> On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Clayton Zekelman <clayton at MNSi.Net> wrote:
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> I'm not sure how they can do that.   Equinix is Layer 2 - your peering parameters are between you and your peer?
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> At 12:52 PM 18/12/2014, Mike Hammett wrote:
>> So I just found out that the IX we're looking to hook up with (Equinix) doesn't allow downstream ASes. How does that functionally work?
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>> Stepping outside my ISP for a moment, I know a building owner with several buildings that provides Internet to his tenants. He's getting an AS so he can have upstream diversity. Unless carrier A or ISP B have direct private peering with whomever (Amazon, NetFlix, Google, FaceBook, etc., etc.), that building owner doesn't have a route to those services? They can't utilize carrier A or ISP B's public peering connection? How can that possibly bee with with every ISP being required to have their own physical presence on the exchange? That's just not practical.
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>> I understand not having parallel ASNs (advertising both ASN A and ASN B separately) from a sales perspective, but I don't understand ASN A advertising directly on the IX, but not allowing ASN A's downstream customers of ASNs B, C, D and E.
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>> Am I wrong or is this just an Equinix thing?
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> Clayton Zekelman
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