Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939

[Darin Steffl <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>]

Depending on transport costs, it may be cheaper to just use HE at a
datacenter he's already in vs going to a datacenter he's not in currently.

HE has 10G of transit for as low as $900 right now. If 10G of transport
from him to an IX is more than that, there's no financial incentive to peer
instead of buy more transit. Since HE peers with everyone on most IX's, he
is essentially paying HE for full routes plus peering to the same IX he
would go to anyway. It's lower cost and you kill two birds with one stone.
I understand the desire to have your own connection to an IX but having HE
in the mix is basically like peering direct since they're everywhere in
nearly every IX. The other upside is you don't need to waste time trying to
establish bilateral peering sessions with providers who don't peer with the
route servers.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 8:09 AM Michael Spears <michael () spears io> wrote:

> Yep. Get on some IXes first. You’d be able to offload a ton of traffic to
> free peering, vs sending everything via the transit you pay for.
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> *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+michael=spears.io () nanog org> *On Behalf Of *Mike
> Hammett
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 13, 2020 8:20 PM
> *To:* Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com>
> *Cc:* nanog () nanog org
> *Subject:* Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939
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> https://bgp.he.net/AS16527
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> You don't appear to be on any IXes. Definitely join some IXes before
> buying another 100G of transit.
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> DFW has a couple and there are some more that are starting up.
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> *From: *"Aaron Gould" <aaron1 () gvtc com>
> *To: *nanog () nanog org
> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:29:55 PM
> *Subject: *Hurricane Electric AS6939
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> Do y’all like HE for Internet uplink?  I’m thinking about using them for
> 100gig in Texas.  It would be for my eyeballs ISP.  We currently have
> Spectrum, Telia and Cogent.
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> -Aaron