On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, J S Russell wrote:
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Alastair Johnson wrote:
Their other argument against peering with ISPs is that apparently we give free colocation to "hosters" (I assume he means content heavy sites or big webhosting firms) in order to build traffic volume to obtain peering.
Uh .. are you sure that's what they said. Because nobody else except TelstraClear charges for peering. So I'm guessing that the business model that the person you talked to imagines everyone else has is something like:
Oh yes. Apparently us evil ISPs that abuse their national backbone are constantly giving away services for free, so we can get peering. I have no idea where they dreamed this up from. I think they were moaning about Trademe, to be honest. TCL's domestic transit isn't even cost effective when compared to The Other Carrier's service. They'll probably crank the prices up now though.
1) Free co-location to generate traffic to peers across IXes 2) Free peering connectvity across IXes 3) Spam NZNOG members 4) Profit!
I've missed the correlation of free transit to profit. aj -- Network Operations || noc. +64.9.915.1825 Maxnet || cell. +64.21.639.706