[AusNOG] ubiquitous peering

[Joseph Goldman]

5 Seconds after posting I find: 
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/communitynet - Most of the links are dead 
though for FAQ and Forums so they may have stopped.

On 19/12/12 5:43 PM, Joseph Goldman wrote:
> The problem seems as you suggest, having full L3 gear at each POI, 
> possible for some, not for others who would probably rather L2 link it 
> straight back to a more central POP.
>
> However the idea has merit, I believe Adam Internet do a similar thing 
> with their ADSL2+ Infrastructure in South Australia. I only read a 
> little bit about it but I believe it is what you are talking about 
> (exchange based peering) but they control it in the sense of having a 
> community server in that area (newsgroups or DC or <other p2p 
> protocol>. I can't seem to find much info on it now though.
>
>
> On 19/12/12 5:38 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
>> So I was wondering and the list seems quiet.
>> With P2P content (games, skype etc not just torrents) soaking a 
>> decent amount of traffic, and the NBN having relatively few 
>> "exchanges" if you will, I wonder about the possibility of peering at 
>> that level.
>>
>> IE within each POI everybody sees if the traffic actually needs to 
>> leave said POI.
>> Presumably routers and such would need to be configured automatically 
>> but I wonder how much of a gain there would be from it.
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