Re: Zayo or HE for IP transit

[James Jun <james.jun () towardex com>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 04:28:12PM +0000, Luke Guillory wrote:
> No issues with HE, only gripe was that if you had transit along with IX peering, traffic will always prefer transit 
> over IX ports.

That's how it's supposed to work, and is not specific to HE.

Customer routes > peer routes

Most providers wouldn't allow simultaneous peer + customer relationship, but in this case, I would argue that HE is 
doing you a favor by leaving your settlement-free peering adjacency in place, for you to dump outbound traffic toward 
their customers for free.

James