[1st-mile-nm] The Peering Mess

[John Brown]

Interesting article.

I've been running a little project that does route and path analysis of most of the local providers.
I'll be publishing the data in a report that shows how each provider in NM is connected to other providers in NM, how much asymmetry exists between the various connections.  

I guess we do have a "defacto" peering in NM.

Just BUY your transit connection from TW Telecom and you in effect are peered with others in the State.

Oh, wait, if TW Telecom has a network failure then not only will you LOOSE peering, but you will also LOOSE your transit...... Ouch.


Oh and BTW.  Another interesting tid-bit.  Many ABQ ISP's share the same fate path as their neighbor / competitor.  One or two fiber breaks could cause several providers to become islands and not connected to the world.

The level of "single point of failure" in our City and in our State is amazing.  Its serious and its critical.


Peering is economic development , its cost reduction, is service reliability improvement, its better customer experience, its better network operations.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-
> bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:36 PM
> To: 1st mile nm
> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] The Peering Mess
> 
>  Many of you receive the online and/or printed copy of
> BroadbandCommunities magazine.
>  An excellent publication.   www.bbpmag.com/
>  The current Aug./Sept. issue includes one short item of note to this  list.
>  On page 14, Steve Ross briefly writes about "The Peering Mess", with  the
> example  of the recent shut down of IXNM, the only neutral peering node in
> NM,  as was reported by John Brown to this list a few weeks ago.
> 
>  This issue highlights an increasingly important need for new  understandings
> (peering),  as part of fundamentally evolving business and service models for
> broadband telecommunications,  with cooperation being as much a part of
> the equation as competition,  for assured win-win outcomes.
>  We've got a long way to go yet.
> 
>  RL
> 
> 
> 
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