On 3/19/20 9:51 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
During this time, however, 'work from home' technology hasn't really progressed along the same path, has it? So, "get to the vpn" is still largely a process of getting packets across the wide internet and to small locations (your enterprise), there's little relief in site for that model:(
IMO that's where local peering comes in, but the big ISPs like AT&T and Charter/Spectrum (the two national providers in my area) are loathe to peer anywhere except a few big central locations, if at all. It's not a technical problem (i.e. Charter has a 10% utilized 10Ge and unused 1Ge switch trunks in my facility as custs cancel due to he.net moving in), it's a policy problem. So we end up with setups like colo customers not using Charter at the colo because they can get better pricing options, then suddenly they have remote workers on high latency cable connections at home since for that home cable connection to talk to the colo server traffic has to take some crazy long out of state boomerang path that a simple peering connection would solve.