On Tue, 25 May 2004, Craig Spiers wrote:
If telstraclear, was to stop peering at APE, and remove 'ports and connections to there' wouldn't that limit them to only having 'domestic' data inside their own network?
Don't they use APE for data Telecom > TelstraClear ?
It was mentioned to me verbally that they were looking to how "big players worldwide" were doing it, and were looking to private peering. Did Telecom get notice like this? Otherwise you have a valid point, Craig. If so, will they move to private peering? I remember that before TCL and TCNZ would actually peer at APE there was a big huffle over whether TCL and TCNZ equipment would be allowed to "touch" each other. Ofcourse, perhaps they're concerned about SLA/QoS issues across APE and trying to guarantee a service to their customers thru SLAs when they can't get guarantees from the interconnect facilitator. aj -- Network Operations || noc. +64.9.915.1825 Maxnet || cell. +64.21.639.706