On 21/01/2008, at 12:43 PM, Martin Barry wrote:
This was basically setting up the next comment which was in relation to how this situation ("my customer is now at a multi-lateral peering point I'm on") is not really an issue as far as the bean-counters are concerned. Unless any ratio limit you have was applicable to that customer.
We don't really have a lot of ratio-limit issues over here. Nobody is going to say, "Our traffic is way imbalanced so I'm not peering with you anymore," when transit costs hundreds of bucks per megabit. The industry in .au is very firmly stratified into one group containing Telstra, Singtel/Optus, AAPT/TNZ and MCI-703, and another group containing everyone else. The everyone-else crowd (which makes up well over half of the domestic marketplace) is perfectly happy to exchange traffic with each other on almost any terms whatsoever if it means they can reduce or elminiate their financial commitments to the other four. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223