You can certainly buy a blended service, that is no problem at all. But most service providers with any sort of scale will buy three separate services ���

1. Peering, There is actually very good peering exchanges in the major city���s that cost a minimal amount to connect through via a neutral carrier (Citylink)

2. International (self-explanatory)

3. ���Domestic���, this is actually a transit connection to either one of the gang of two (Telecom/Vodafone) who refuse to peer at the neutral exchanges for purely commercial reasons. So if you don���t buy a connection to either Telecom or Vodafone (actually the old TelstraClear, the ���Vodafone��� (ihug) network is still peered (for now)) then traffic between your customers and their customers will go internationally. This has been the norm for the last dozen years since TelstraClear and Telecom de-peered themselves to make a few more bucks from the smaller carriers and any content providers who might want to set up here.

From: nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, 2 July 2014 11:27 p.m.
To: sales@ngw.co.nz
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Subject: Re: [nznog] Thoughts about IP Transit

Hi Joel,

I find this interesting.  In Australia there are few people selling 'National' transit as such... a few, but not too much.  Most of the time transit is just transit - full domestic+international+often peering.

Would this be because the cost of NZ international transit?  and are many people buying domestic by itself?

I find this curious.