[AusNOG] Facebook on NSW-IX

[Barry Murphy]

All the images etc come off CDN’s so the content FB deliver is just the text based portion / html of the page.
They said they delivered this all over the peering locations and equinix should be preferred were their words.
Quite a few providers carry the backbone traffic, I know microsoft have done this now and there is at least one other about to start that I know of.

Considering we get around 5% across their peering in AU, if this was the case for every provider then I could assume their traffic for AU at 1.6Gbps is only 5% of the HTML and that’s just the one port they have others with other IX’s such as Equinix etc.
If that was the case we’re talking about 60gbps of HTML traffic they deliver to the region, seems a little high when looked at this way.

Cheers

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Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer
From: Phillip Grasso
Date: Wednesday, 6 May 2015 7:03 pm
To: Barry Murphy
Cc: Joseph Goldman, "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>"
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Facebook on NSW-IX


Sorry for stating the obvious, seems like an economically driven traffic profile. Costs a lot to carry heavy bw traffic across the pond.

On 6 May 2015 4:29 pm, "Barry Murphy" <barry at vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry at vibecommunications.co.nz>> wrote:
Funny enough we have a similar issue, we receive about 150mbps from their peering to us in LA and about 10mbps over their AU peering.
When I ask Facebook they say all traffic should come from their AU pop however this isn’t the case.

I’ve gone so far as rejecting all their more specific prefixes via transit’s and I got all outbound to them going fine via AU peering but return didn’t change.
I’ve tried everything to no avail.

I’ve asked their team for some debug data from their LAX routers to see what they are seeing (a looking glass would be helpful) but have asked for this for about 4 months, they keep sending sydney ‘show route’ data.

Cheers

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Kind regards,
Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer










On 5/05/15 9:22 am, "Joseph Goldman" <joe at apcs.com.au<mailto:joe at apcs.com.au>> wrote:

>Hi *,
>
>  Those who use IX.asn.au<http://IX.asn.au> NSW-IX, I see Facebook are connected up and
>doing ~1.5gbit+ data @ peak. I am seeing some routes via the
>route-servers, but netflow shows less than 1mbit of traffic from that
>peer, which seems low for the size of my network. Does anyone know what
>content exactly they serve on the IX? And if they only 'partially'
>contribute to the route-servers, but need full peering for more advantage?
>
>  This is a post more out of curiosity than anything - I tried
>contacting Facebook NOC & Peering teams to no response at all, so
>thought I'd pose it to the list.
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
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