Peering is great when you can get to the IX inexpensively. I assume that glass that goes underwater has a significant increase in cost and therefore the cost savings of peering would be minuscule in comparison to the cost of the rest of the connectivity.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hicks" <richard.hi...@gmail.com> To: "Keenan Singh" <keenansi...@airlinktt.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 2:55:05 PM Subject: Re: Bandwidth Savings I don't know the the Caribbean Internet Exchanges market. Are any worth peering at versus buying additional L2 bandwidth to Miami? https://cw.ams-ix.net/ http://www.ocix.net/ocix/ Rick On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Keenan Singh <keenansi...@airlinktt.net> wrote: > Hi Guys > > We are an ISP in the Caribbean, and are faced with extremely high Bandwidth > costs, compared to the US, we currently use Peer App for Caching however > with most services now moving to HTTPS the cache is proving to be less and > less effective. We are currently looking at any way we can save on > Bandwidth or to be more Efficient with the Bandwidth we currently have. We > do have a Layer 2 Circuit between the Island and Miami, I am seeing there > are WAN Accelerators where they would put a Server on either end and sort > of Compress and decompress the Traffic before it goes over the Layer 2, I > have never used this before, has any one here used anything like this, what > results would I be able to expect for ISP Traffic? > > If not any ideas on Bandwidth Savings, or being more Efficient with want we > currently. > > Many thanks for any Help > > Keenan >
