Alastair Johnson wrote:
Private interconnection between carriers has always been done on a cost incurred by each party basis. ie. We peer in two locations, I pay for circuit #1, you pay for circuit #2. It sounds like Telecom is offering something similar here. It may not require to be a Telecom circuit - if you, say, have DSLAMs located in a Telecom CO for LLU, then surely you're going to have your own backhaul anyway....
But this is sounding rather like, "you, pathetic little ISP, will pay me, big ugly telco, to reach MY peering point, because your existing peering arrangements are not worthy of my favour." That doesn't sound like neutral peering to me. The whole point of peering is to reduce costs, not just add another way to hand money to carriers. A peering point is somewhere I can put a big pat pipe into to exchange traffic with lots of peers, *including* bilateral arrangements with transit providers, so I *don't* have to pay for lots of smaller (more easily congested) pipes to individual carriers, no matter how big and important they think they are. Having to be a Telecom customer to play is fine if you're already wholesaling DSL off them, but I'm getting rather tired of the attitude that an ISP is someone who wholesales off Telecom that seems to permeate most of these discussions. What about the rest of us who are doing stuff that doesn't involve sponging off Telecom infrastructure? -- don