We are seeing about 79% currently that is with one of our new Akamai PNIs in CHI and we peer at most major IXs across the US.
Top 5 peers Netflix, Google, Akamai, Amazon and EdgeCast. (In order) Erich Kaiser The Fusion Network er...@gotfusion.net On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 10:11 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > "you are not going to be able to peer 85% of the traffic" > > It depends. If you are an eyeball ISP and you join one of the major IXes, > you'll be near 85%. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> > *To: *nanog@nanog.org > *Sent: *Sunday, February 16, 2020 10:08:12 AM > *Subject: *Re: Dual Homed BGP > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:45 PM Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > >> >> >> On 25/Jan/20 02:49, Baldur Norddahl wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > >> > The solution is to stay clear of tier 1 networks. Find a good local >> > tier 3. Whatever you are going to do, they will do better. >> >> So all our transit comes from the top 7 "global" carriers. Yes, >> including Cogent :-). >> >> But that only accounts for about 15% of our overall traffic. The rest >> comes from peering. >> >> Mark. >> >> > From the perspective of someone just starting out being dual homed, this > will be very different. You are not going to get 7 transits and you are not > going to be able to peer 85% of the traffic. That is why I advocate that it > is better to buy transit from a middle tier company. Instead of getting a > connection to just one so called global carrier, you get a package deal > with connection to all of them and 85% peering one step removed. Plus many > of the companies that the middle tier has a peering with, is something the > tier 1 companies would refuse to peer (exception Hurricane Electric). > > Also while your company may not need dual connections to each transit, the > situation is completely different from the perspective of a small dual > homed customer of yours. That is a lot of paths that are lost if this > customer where to experience a disruption to the connection to your network. > > This is especially true if there is an unbalance between the two chosen > transit providers. Say the other provider is Cogent, which are famous for > refusing to peer. That means that all those peers, unless they have a > Cogent contract, they will need to find an indirect path to replace your > peering. > > Of course I may also recommend to simply set your expectations modestly. > Dual homing will get you redundancy but unless you line up all your ducks > correctly, you should expect some brownouts in the case of a link failure. > Simply tell the boss, that unless he wants to pay at least double in every > way, there will be expected downtime in the order of 5 minuttes in the case > of a link failure. > > Regards, > > Baldur > > > >
