That’s exactly what I was thinking… Equinix doesn’t really have anything to do with that part of the peering ecology.
On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Clayton Zekelman <clayton@MNSi.Net> wrote:
I'm not sure how they can do that. Equinix is Layer 2 - your peering parameters are between you and your peer?
At 12:52 PM 18/12/2014, Mike Hammett wrote:
So I just found out that the IX we're looking to hook up with (Equinix) doesn't allow downstream ASes. How does that functionally work?
Stepping outside my ISP for a moment, I know a building owner with several buildings that provides Internet to his tenants. He's getting an AS so he can have upstream diversity. Unless carrier A or ISP B have direct private peering with whomever (Amazon, NetFlix, Google, FaceBook, etc., etc.), that building owner doesn't have a route to those services? They can't utilize carrier A or ISP B's public peering connection? How can that possibly bee with with every ISP being required to have their own physical presence on the exchange? That's just not practical.
I understand not having parallel ASNs (advertising both ASN A and ASN B separately) from a sales perspective, but I don't understand ASN A advertising directly on the IX, but not allowing ASN A's downstream customers of ASNs B, C, D and E.
Am I wrong or is this just an Equinix thing?
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