<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 Mar. 2017 4:07 pm, "Paul Holmanskikh" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@pkholm.com" target="_blank">ausnog@pkholm.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-5879424654110731863quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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Is there any way to peer with Telsta AS1221 within Australia? They are not present on any IX in Australia. But it seems the only way to peer with Telstra is to buy transit from them.But transit from Telstra costs absolutely insane money. I'm looking for peering because Telstra's customers generates good amount of traffic on our transit links.</blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The word Peer means an equal, based on a or some set of metrics. Are you, by any network metric, an equal or near equal of Telstra's?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Network peering is about two parties getting getting enough of a mutual benefit that they agree not to send each other bills for services that are approximately of the same value.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">By the same argument you're using, I could wonder why my ISP is not peering with my network at home. By the same argument, your customers wonder why you're not peering with them.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The best way to get Telstra to lower or better yet avoid their prices is to not pay them. Get you transit from somebody else. If you believe Telstra's transit is better than everybody else's, pay their price.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_-5879424654110731863quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="#888888"><br>
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