Re: [nznog] Telecom's "peering" change of heart really isn't
[once more for good luck - maybe THIS time I'll get it on list] Matthew Poole wrote:
Okay, but if you're only interconnecting/exchanging at your local IX then suddenly this is not as useful as it sounded. Telecom's primary center of operations is indisputably Auckland. Does that mean that, e.g. Trademe, cannot reach TNZ across an IX? Or do we come back to region-isation again?
Because you're regulating peering. If we must peer, then surely everyone needs to peer either everywhere (expensive), or at one IX (expensive for some). Otherwise you're significantly reducing the benefit of it before you even start. What happens if my POPs are islands and not connected to my backbone[s]? (think internap PNAPs) I'm only going to originate local prefixes anyway. What if I don't want to haul Content Provider C's traffic from Palmy to my subscribers in Auckland because it's 50+Mbps? Third option: regional based peering. My POP in PMR peers at the PNIX and only originates local prefixes. These all sound like significant business and technical issues that would need to be addressed by regulation. Unless your idea of regulation is to just focus on the big boys. Maybe that's fair, maybe that's not....
If the government is serious about our OECD rankings, then I think many ISPs are going to hit >50k. If you believe press releases, Ihug, Orcon, and Callplus are all around (or over) the 100k mark.
Which one may state is not particularly fair. Incidentally, what about Vodafone? I've noticed that traffic from a large number of smaller providers currently trombones via Tokyo and Sydney.
I think you'll find that UoA in particular does not peer [any longer]. UoW also does not. aj.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Alastair Johnson wrote:
Numbers seems to be very fudged all around, but is some stuff: http://10layers.com/2007/02/more-on-the-new-zealand-dialup-vs-broadband-land... picks your "Gang of N" from that. Anyway I'm sure if this is regulated there will be discussions, submissions and a 200 page rules document or three. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.
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