Since Exodus is mostly a webhoster, do they have an asymmetric traffic flow. Isn't bulk of the bandwidth is outbound from Exodus. Won't this just increase the distance and AS count for Exodus outbound traffic, making Exodus hosting even less desirable?
Well spotted. Everybody sees this de-peering as a bad thing when in actual fact its creating a huge opportunity for the competition to hoover up some much needed additional business. A large proportion of Exodus customers bought service from them because of their peer with anyone policy and those customers are going to be very annoyed by this change and also by the large number of network outages and connectivity issues that will arise from this well thought out plan. If this is handled as well as the original 3561 migration then the value of the traffic within AS-EXODUS will be zero as there probably won't be any customers left. So prep your sales folks, dig up all the alleged old tales of woe from the 3561 migration, call up the bids that you lost to Exodus, make up special offers for these customers and help turn this into a non-issue. If there are big ISPs behind 3967 then try setting up direct peering with those guys, I do this for all intellectually challenged organisations who don't wish to peer with organisations that I have represented because of some policy that changes everytime the sun rises. Do some work with netflow identify the larger ASes and give do that funny thing with the phone and give them a call! These Things Do Work if you put the effort in. Oh and then tell the sales guy from the stupid provider your plan thats the icing on the cake :-) Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking neil@DOMINO.ORG