<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I think it could be a symptom of a few differences between Australia and other regions.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Australia has a small number of large cities, spread apart by 100s of Kms. As a consequence, there are only a small number of IXes in each city, and the network effect (the more something is used, the more valuable it becomes), keeps that number of IXes small. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you're going to connect to an interstate IX, you need to be large enough to afford that sort of infrastructure (e.g, be able to afford to pay for a reasonable bandwidth link that goes 100s of Kms), and you're going to go to the most popular IX(es) to gain the best
value from peering.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Once you connect to an IX, multilateral peering with a couple of the IX's route servers provides more value than bilaterally peering in most cases, because you avoid the administrative overhead of all those bilateral peering setups. </div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">To be worth doing, bilateral peering would need to either provide a peering with somebody who won't multilateral peer at an IX, or peering that provides more useful value than what
the existing multilateral peering provides.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Regards,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Mark.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">I just wanted to chime in here … We are peering with Wolfgang and set it up last week.
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">We are all for peering .. and if anyone wants to reach out and peer with us we have gear/pop in the following locations.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">530 Collins St (MDF / & MDC Level 15 )</span></div>
<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">525 Collins St (MDF Rialto Towers)</span></div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Primus DC Melbourne</span></div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Regards</span></div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;"> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Paseka<br>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal">Australia isn't opposed to peering any more or less so than Europe. Difference is many operators wont set up direct sessions over the fabric, instead relying on peering with the Route Server(s) to exchange routes. </div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal">On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Wolfgang Nagele <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wolfgang.nagele@ausregistry.com.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:wolfgang.nagele@ausregistry.com.au">wolfgang.nagele@ausregistry.com.au</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;">Coming from Europe I have to say that I am still surprised about the reluctance in Australia to peer with each other. Leaving the large players and their various (mainly)
political motives aside, why the reluctance among the small providers here?</span></div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;">To put it into perspective, we've just recently rolled out a substantial global Anycast deployment and while we are struggling to get decent numbers of peers at various IXes
here we've established many in both Europe and the US.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;">Anybody can shed some light on this issue for me?</span></div>
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<div class="yiv3627350957MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;">And for those that actually just would like to peer - our details are here:
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://as58620.peeringdb.com/">http://as58620.peeringdb.com</a></span></div>
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