[AusNOG] Is there such thing as peering with Telstra in Australia

[Dale Shaw]

Hi Paul,

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 at 4:07 pm, Paul Holmanskikh <ausnog at pkholm.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.


If direct peering isn't feasible you could consider buying a service from
an aggregator like IP Transit:

https://iptransit.com.au

(I am not a customer of, nor or I am affiliated with IP Transit but they,
and companies like them, exist to solve exactly the problem you describe.)

Cheers,
Dale
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