On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Nick Ellermann wrote:
Colton,
We are a member on the Equinix IX. Maybe best for you to speak to an
Equinix SE on the topic, but there are two main connection methods. In
laymen's terms you can be a member on the switch and then build peering
relationships within any other network that will have you. Meaning, you
reach out to them or they reach out to you via their contacts in
PeeringDB and setup a typical BGP session but usually only exchanging
private routes. Therefore you are are not providing transit to the
other.
The other option Equinix offers is their MLPE (Multi-Lateral Peering
Exchange). Essentially from what we understand you peer once to
Equinix's router and all other participants and you are able to exchange
traffic. It's not an all or none, you can use filtering to exclude
specific ASNs. We are not a member of this service today.
It's reasonably common to do both, since not everyone on the IX will peer
with or advertise all their peering routes to the route-servers. Peering
with the route servers (what Equinix calls MPLE) is a good way to "jump
start" your use of the IX by immediately getting at least a degree of
peering with multiple networks established without the coordination and
config needed to peer with each network individually.
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