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Re: PAIX Outages

  • From: Brandon Butterworth
  • Date: Fri Apr 29 08:25:11 2005

> With public peering you simply never know how much spare
> capacity your peer has free.

So? That doesn't make public peering bad, you don't know that
for PI or transit either

> And would you expect your
> peer with 400 Mbit/s total to have 400 reserved on his AMSIX
> port for you when you see 300 at LINX and LINX goes down?

Yes and more fool you if they have and you haven't

Of course commercially that may be something you gamble with for
profit margin

brandon




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