Re: Peering and Network Cost

On 15/Apr/15 22:12, Grzegorz Janoszka wrote:

Please keep in mind that some companies peer despite it offers no savings for them and at the end of the day it might be even more expensive. They do it because of performance and reliability reasons.

And also to reduce AS hops. If you and your competition are pushing BGP routes to your multi-homed customers, the customers are "more likely" to choose paths with fewer AS hops. Traffic to you means $$ to you. In the long run, it "could" pay off, or at the very least, get you more customers. Mark.