The way our exchange works is 2 different products in regards to this. 1.Peering on the exchange. This is a BGP exchange. 2.Private VLAN. Each side gets a private VLAN between the two. Either way you buy capacity on the exchange and it¹s up to you how you use it. I have some Equinix documents on their exchange port offerings if you are interested. Justin -- Justin Wilson <j2sw@mtin.net> http://www.mtin.net Managed Services xISP Solutions Data Centers http://www.thebrotherswisp.com Podcast about xISP topics http://www.midwest-ix.com Peering Transit Internet Exchange On 11/25/14, 4:29 PM, "Faisal Imtiaz" <faisal@snappytelecom.net> wrote:
Hi Colton,
The primary challenge in buying IP Transit across a Peering Exchange is not so much of a technical configuration challenge, but rather a 'how do we keep track of how much IP Transit you are using' ..a billing challenge.
and additionally, one is making the assumption that there is capacity to do so on the IP Transit Providers Peering Port Connection.
While it is possible to deal with such issue, but you need someone willing and able to do so, on the other side.
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I think the way most providers would do this would be to get a rack and power with Equinix. Pay a cross connect fee from the wave provider to our rack. Pay for an exchange port (which includes a cross connect to the exchange) for the 5GBPS of traffic going to Netflix, Google, etc. And then pay for yet another cross connect going to HE.net's cage to get pure IP from them.
Yes, you are right, this is the traditional way of doing so, and yes, it can get expensive.. For this exact reason, folks such as us and others who are willing to provide access via their existing resources at different facilities.
We are facilitating flexible connectivity needs of folks who are running remote (from major metro areas) such as yours, in Miami, Atlanta, and I know others who are doing so in Equinox Chicago, one in Texas and a couple of the West Coast.
Feel free to ping me off list if you are interested in additional details.
Regards
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From: "Colton Conor" <colton.conor@gmail.com> To: "Ammar Zuberi" <ammar@fastreturn.net> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 2:51:47 PM Subject: Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange
The exchange in question is Equinix. Their sales team is leading me to believe there are multiple exchange products. One where you can peer with providers (Google, Netflix for example) and then one where you can create virtual private layer 2 vlans between providers. Then there is also the traditional cross connect fee of $350 if you want to go from one cage/rack to the other.
So in a situation where we are getting a 10Gig transport wave to Equinix, we would ideally like to split this wave's use to 5Gbps of traffic going to the peering exchange for traffic going directly to Google, Netflix, and other CDN's, and then 5Gbps of pure IP transit going to a low cost provider like HE.net. Of course providers like HE.NET are also peers on the peering exchange, so it seems possible that we could just opening a peering conenction with them.
I think the way most providers would do this would be to get a rack and power with Equinix. Pay a cross connect fee from the wave provider to our rack. Pay for an exchange port (which includes a cross connect to the exchange) for the 5GBPS of traffic going to Netflix, Google, etc. And then pay for yet another cross connect going to HE.net's cage to get pure IP from them.
If I can buy transit directly I avoid the expenses of having to pay for space, power, another router/switch, plus a second cross connect. Thats quite a bit of money saved.
Are exchanges really that unreliable compared to a traditional cross connect?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Ammar Zuberi <ammar@fastreturn.net> wrote:
Hi Conor,
I know this is possible since Hurricane Electric does it for IPv6 transit, however, I'm not sure if it violates any exchange rules or if it's even a good idea.
On 25 Nov 2014, at 10:47 pm, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
I know typically peering exchanges are made for peering traffic between providers, but can you buy IP transit from a provider on an exchange? An example, buy a 10G port on an exchange, peer 5Gbps of traffic with multiple providers on the exchange, and buy 5Gbps of IP transit from others on the exchange?
Some might ask why not get a cross connect to the provider. It is cheaper to buy an port on the exchange (which includes the cross connect to the exchange) than buy multiple cross connects. Plus we are planning on getting a wave to the exchange, and not having any physical routers or switches at the datacenter where the exchange/wave terminates at. Is this possible?