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

[Mark Prior]

On 12/11/12 8:55 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:

> Anyway... Perhaps greater cooperation amongst providers in AU would be
> able to breach the Reach (har har) and achieve the sort of pricing that
> you see on trans-atlantic (transit basically) links::
> http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/ProjectKelvin-PricingMarch20111_000.pdf

I'll leave it to Bevin to explain cable economics 101 :-)

> Seans Idea of pumping all the traffic overseas for a week to pwn the Go4
> is a great idea, what would be better is the establishment of a
> "not-for-profit" consortium that got together to bully the Go4 into
> submission. The best thing about it is even the dedicated server
> providers that have them used by gamers won't be bearing much of a brunt
> as it will be T$lstra who has to explain why latency to next door
> neighbour on iiNet is being routed via SJ while iiNet customer enjoys
> low latency to 90% of providers who do choose to peer. Or at least that
> would be the idea (trollface), maybe someone experienced could think of
> the actual ramifications and possibilities..

You make the flawed assumption that they care about latency to other 
providers. Also been there and tried it.

Mark.