[LINK] Australian ISP Peering

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> Michael Skeggs mike at bystander.net
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2009 12:18 AM
> To: The Link Institute
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Australian ISP Peering
> 
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> If you are a small ISP with minimal local 
> data traffic, I suspect the barrier to peering is that the 
> big four peer on Gigabit pipes, and your 1.5mbps is 
> inconsequential. 

That's the point Michael - they actually have customers whose traffic
shouldn't slow down the rest of the countries traffic by having to go to
the USA and then back.

If you are a Telstra user in Sydney and watching a Youtube Video then
the traffic coming from Philadelphia into PAIX at 529 Bryant where the
main Telstra (12 Racks) peering is located for the USA then the 1.5 Mbps
of email is going to come back down the line just as you getting near
the end of your video clip and cause your browser to start buffering.

My argument is that is a waste of bandwidth when it is Australian
content via email from one Australian User to the Other.

And Michael - I have been involved in building several internet
exchanges - small and big (USA, Germany, UK and Hungary) ... MLPA's are
now almost universaly mandatory - with no transit offerred.

The only country that seems to offer an exception is Australia. The
UUNet peering agreement you refer to was the 1990's pre MCI takeover
that was subsequently totally revamped by Bernie Ebbers to be a MLPA by
1998.

But thanks for the insight into Australian big4 thinking. (With the
exception of a short stint on the Optus Strategy team in '96 and having
to almost threated to bludgeon Rob Gillan (joke) over the head into
buying a cisco Router.....) I have never worked for any of them.
Interestingly, in 1997, the AUIX was peering double the traffic that
connect.com ever handled, yet it was always considered to be small and
insignificant by the big4......

Tom





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