On 3 May 2010, at 05:27, Matthew Petach wrote:
In Asia, there is a popular, but incorrectly named product offering that many ISPs sell called "domestic transit" which they sell for price $X; for "full routes" you often pay $2X-$3X. I grind my teeth every time I hear it, since "transit" doesn't mean "to select parts of the internet" in most people's eyes. It's really a paid peering offering, but no matter how much I try to correct people, the habit of calling it "domestic transit" still persists. :(
This is relatively common in europe too - normally under the name 'partial transit'. paid peering: [provider AS] + [providers customers] partial transit: [provider AS] + [providers customers] + [providers peers] Pricing is typically 5-20% of the cost of full routes, and will provide in the region of 40-120k routes.