[AusNOG] Domestic Peering WAS: Vocus peering traffic missingfrom PIPE-IX?

[Brad Gould]

Just because no money changes hands, does not mean its free.

Port costs.  Interconnect costs.  Network complexity costs.  Monitoring costs.

How much does establishing a PoP in another DC to pick up peering cost?

Sure, you can soak most of that into your normal ongoings and operations, but its there.

Brad

On 09/11/2012, at 9:39:38, Luke Iggleden wrote:

> On 9/11/12 9:45 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> The assertion was peering is free / gratis / no money. That's clearly incorrect, and I don't think you need much more than a simplification to realise it.
>> 
>> However, it's a reasonable generalization, since it holds true 99.75% of the time.
>> 
>> http://www.pch.net/resources/papers//peering-survey/PCH-Peering-Survey-2011.pdf
>> 
>> You really want to argue over a 0.25% corner case?
>> 
>>                                 -Bill
> 
> 
> Great data, thanks Bill!
> 
> In particular, it's very interesting to see that 99.51% of the peering relationships were set-up by handshake agreements.
> 
> I wonder how many of the formalized agreements were in fact the paid asymmetric agreements?
> 
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