[LINK] Usage Based Billing

[Michael Skeggs mike@bystander.net]

Oops, I meant to include a link to a sample peering policy
http://www.verizonbusiness.com/terms/peering/

On 1 April 2011 09:32, Michael Skeggs mike at bystander.net
<mskeggs at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 1 April 2011 09:06, Richard Chirgwin <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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>> On 1/04/11 8:29 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> > On 2011/Apr/01, at 7:02 AM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
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>> >>
>> >> Not technical reasons, perhaps, but definitely economic reasons.
>> > I keep hearing that but why does Australia have to pay for US bytes when
>> no other country does?  We might have to pay more for the underwater fibre
>> but that surely is a fixed cost and other countries on the pacific would
>> have to pay that to.
>> All ISPs have to make some kind of transit arrangement, wherever they
>> are. The issue, as I understand it, is scale: if you're big enough to
>> force peering with a large backbone provider, you pay for the difference
>> between traffic up and down. We're not big enough, so we have to buy
>> transit at a disadvantageous rate.
>>
>> RC
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> To connect to US networks you need to purchase transit bandwidth, or
> establish peering agreements with each ISP you wish to exchange traffic
> with. If you are, for example KPN, (big Dutch Telco), you can probably get
> Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, RoadRunner etc to peer with you, and it is probably
> worth your time and their time to set up a settlement agreement to do so.
> But to access content hosted on e.g. Clearwire (ISP pulled at random from
> this list http://www.isp-planet.com/research/rankings/usa.html) it isn't
> worth your trouble to set up a direct peering agreement, as they are pretty
> small (400k customers). Part of your agreement with the big guys might allow
> you to pull transit traffic from their peers (of whom Clearwire might be
> one) but ideally the big guys would like to sell you transit bandwidth for
> using their network to connect to these other third parties ("transiting"
> their network).
> There are public peering points, similar to the Australian IX's, but they
> carry less traffic than private peering arrangements.
> The wikipedia article looks OK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering
> So it isn't a case of everyone else on the planet getting free bytes and we
> have to pay.
>
> Regards,
> Michael Skeggs
>