From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Tue 08 May 2001 - 17:04:43 IST
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Chris Higgins wrote:
> What two layers ? Are you saying then that BigTelcos don't sell
> direct to end customers ?
some probably do. but there's a definite difference in the markets
that each are geared at.
> What about mister huge global corporate software company that has
> a policy of only buying bandwidth from BigTelco... where is his
> local peering in Ireland ?
none. but if peering is an issue they buy a line from a national isp.
> He doesn't qualify as an ISP so he can't join INEX... and anyway
> why should he have to join INEX to get national peering - why
> can't his ISP do that for him ?
the irish ISPs do.
> Anyway - you can't split the network into 'big' and 'small', and force
> all the customers to buy though 'small'..
>
> So while your point is argued well, your basis is flawed. There are no
> layers.. It might be fair to talk about layering in the USA context, but
[snip]
> In the Irish context the national 'tier one' networks are the Eircom
> (Eircom Net / Indigo), the Esat (Esat Net, IOL/PostGEM) and the HEAnet
> networks.
USA <-> Ireland??
no USA <-> Europe.
> Arriving into a country, connecting up two customers locally and then
> claiming that you are servicing the country but can't route traffic
> locally within the country is what caused the erroneous statement from
> microsoft in the first place.
look, if BigTelco sees enough traffic from his customers going to
irish destinations, then maybe then it might be enough of
a financial motivation for them to peer at INEX.
However:
These BigTelcos (and by BigTelco we're not talking small fry like
Eircom) probably do not even peer their /own/ irish traffic in
ireland, or maybe customers of theirs have /paid/ for their bandwidth
to go directly into the UK.
In those cases, how are they going to peer at INEX?
> Are you claiming that 'BigTelcos' peering at LINX and AMS-IX is somehow
> more efficient that them peering at INEX ?
Yes. most definitely...
it'd be nice if INEX became a european super-peer - but it has make
sense, and it doesn't.
> How can you make this statement when you responded to my [1] footnote
> with 'exactly...'
groan...
because the most direct route would be:
murpynet - INEX - ryan
not
murphynet - GlobalFoo - INEX - Ryancom
or worse
murphynet - GlobalFoo - INEX - Foonet - Ryancom
ie the most direct route does not involve upstream providers peering
at INEX.
regards,
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