In the previous post we wrote about using PeeringDB to find information about potential peers and obtain the peering details using the REST API with a simple PHP script. (Please read those two posts first.) With this, it’s possible to automate parts of the peering...
As end-users, we expect to connect to an Internet Service Provider which will take our packets and deliver them to all destinations around the world, and take packets from all those places and transport those back to us. But how does this work when all these...
As discussed in earlier posts, as networks grow larger it starts making sense to exchange traffic with other networks directly (peering) rather than pay one or more big ISPs to handle all your internet traffic (transit). When you start peering, you’ll have to...
At home, we pay an ISP to transport our packets to and from the rest of the world. Most organizations do the same. But once a network gets to a certain size, it starts making sense to peer. Peering means that two networks make a direct connection, and exchange the...
Conventional wisdom leads us to believe that interconnects between peering partners in an Exchange that is shorter will also be better than traditional links via transit providers. An Exchange by definition interconnects two peering partners’ networks removing...
