I assumed your AS number is 16527 and looked up who you currently are peering with.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Aaron Gould <aar...@gvtc.com> wrote: > 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. > > >
