Thanks. What's an eyeball network ?
How do you know my "current mix is decent" ? Btw, I have onsite the cdn's aanp, ggc, oca, fna, so only about ~60% of my customer traffic is from Internet uplinks... ~40% is served from local cdn's Aaron > On May 16, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Jared Geiger <ja...@compuwizz.net> wrote: > > If most of your traffic is for US based destinations, you might see worse > performance since Sparkle doesn't seem to have many US POPs/Peering locations > compared to Centurylink/Level3 or HE. You'd probably benefit more by pulling > in some peering from Dallas than adding or replacing a transit provider as > your current mix is decent for an eyeball network. Pick up peering with > Cloudflare, Netflix, Amazon, EdgeCast, Facebook, Apple, Akamai, and Microsoft > in Dallas and you might even be able to get rid of one of your transit > providers. > > Sparkle would "shine" if you were a US hosting provider with many eyeballs in > Europe/Africa/Middle East. > >> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: >> >> >> On 16/May/18 16:54, Aaron Gould wrote: >> > .written in 12/2015 - do y'all think this is accurate, and, in 2018, is it >> > still accurate ? (asking since my next question is related to Sparkle, >> > since >> > they are listed in that previous article as a significant Internet >> > presence) >> >> I don't know about "owning" the Internet, but I would agree with the >> article re: the 7 key global transit providers as things stand in 2018. >> >> It matches up with our own compliment of transit providers in our >> network (AS37100). >> >> >> > >> > >> > My coworker just got back from ITW/Chicago and he is considering Sparkle as >> > an additional Internet provider for the ISP I work for in San Antonio, TX . >> > we would need to uplink to Sparkle in the central Texas area somehow. He >> > mentioned that Sparkle may be in McAllen / Dallas and could possibly, in >> > the >> > future be in Austin or San Antonio >> >> My initial experience with TI Sparkle was in South East Asia back in >> '08. They were decent. >> >> We have them in our stable, and like them for their South American coverage. >> >> Mark. >
