On 8/6/12 7:08 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:07 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
As much as I'd love for Verizon to offer BGP directly over FIOS there are fewer than 40,000 I'm curious as to your number... where is that from? sent to your mailbox every week
AS Summary 41838 Number of ASes in routing system http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/#General_Status the majority of those are stub ASes and more than 1/3 of them are announcing only one prefix. The addressable market of potential multihomers is probably larger than that. but frankly there's a lot of friction that makes the proposition less than worthwhile for most businesses. e.g. p.i. versus pa prefix assignment. longish commitments to two or more providers facilties expertise ... In ipv4 land, a nat box with two uplinks is probably a 90% solution for most non-services-offering high(er) availability needing small businesses.
Marhsall had noted a number of 'small businesses' in the US at ~1.4m as of ~2006ish?
I'd think that there are many use-cases where BGP is useful for end users of FIOS, turning out a 'business' class of service without BGP seems like a less useful 'business' solution (especially where the sla isn't really much better than the consumer solution).
-chris