Peering is great when you can get to the IX inexpensively. I assume that glass that goes underwater has a significant increase in cost and therefore the cost savings of peering would be minuscule in comparison to the cost of the rest of the connectivity. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hicks" <richard.hicks@gmail.com> To: "Keenan Singh" <keenansingh@airlinktt.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 2:55:05 PM Subject: Re: Bandwidth Savings I don't know the the Caribbean Internet Exchanges market. Are any worth peering at versus buying additional L2 bandwidth to Miami? https://cw.ams-ix.net/ http://www.ocix.net/ocix/ Rick On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Keenan Singh <keenansingh@airlinktt.net> wrote:
Hi Guys
We are an ISP in the Caribbean, and are faced with extremely high Bandwidth costs, compared to the US, we currently use Peer App for Caching however with most services now moving to HTTPS the cache is proving to be less and less effective. We are currently looking at any way we can save on Bandwidth or to be more Efficient with the Bandwidth we currently have. We do have a Layer 2 Circuit between the Island and Miami, I am seeing there are WAN Accelerators where they would put a Server on either end and sort of Compress and decompress the Traffic before it goes over the Layer 2, I have never used this before, has any one here used anything like this, what results would I be able to expect for ISP Traffic?
If not any ideas on Bandwidth Savings, or being more Efficient with want we currently.
Many thanks for any Help
Keenan