[AusNOG] What Transit Providers Would You Pair Together

[J Williams]

Hi James,

In respect to getting a more diverse set of routes, hopefully you will be
able to reach the whole internet via either of your providers! ^-^

Cost, features, and support will be more important factors, but if you need
international redundancy, try picking providers who between them have
access to diverse transpacific fibres (eg. AJC/PPC and SCCN/APX/Endeavor)
and one of the transindian (APX/SeaMeWe/ASC).

Try using some looking glass (such as on www.traceroute.org) to check
routing to and from destinations you are interested in.
For example, was recently working with a company in India, and found 200ms
latency difference between two providers, as one literally traversed the
world (Au-Hk-Sg-In-Fr-USA-Au), whilst other took SE Asian path both
directions.

Gang of Four is just a traffic-cost business arrangement and not really
relevant.

Jules



On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:19 AM, James Mcintosh <
james.mcintosh at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Noggers,
>
> We're looking at adding a second transit provider for redundancy (and
> hopefully more-or-less even load balancing). I was wondering what transit
> providers people would recommend pairing together to get the most diverse
> set of routes. Obviously you don't want your two upstreams to have very
> similar routes and paths.
>
> As a start I was thinking perhaps a Gang of Four provider plus a non-Go4
> provider would make a good pairing but I'd really appreciate the comments
> of some of the more experienced BGP gurus on the list.
>
>
> -James
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