Is your AS registered with ARIN?2 byte or 4 byte ASN number?How many devices are you peering with?Dual homed, multi homed?Bandwidth?Type of traffic? There are alot more... Regards,Cyrus Ramirez On Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 3:11:38 PM EDT, David Hofstee <opentext.dhofstee@gmail.com> wrote: I would state that peering gives more control over the traffic you handle (since it is not going over someone else's network). Every hop is a possible problem to your operations, I guess. David On 12 July 2017 at 09:13, Wolfgang Tremmel <wolfgang.tremmel@de-cix.net> wrote:
On 11. Jul 2017, at 21:43, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
1) Are they present an IX where I am present?
2) Can they configure BGP correctly?
3) … Beer?
1) do they have a pulse?
4 ) are they in PeeringDB and keep their entry up to date? (especially the contact information)
cheers, Wolfgang
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