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====== Seeking more peers ====== | ====== Seeking more peers ====== | ||
- | Once the first peers have been established, | + | (NEW CONTENT) |
- | The policy of sitting back and " | + | Once the first peers have been established, |
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+ | * [[more-peers# | ||
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+ | ===== Waiting for new peers ===== | ||
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+ | The policy of sitting back and " | ||
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+ | All network | ||
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+ | Content providers and content distribution networks ideally would like to have all the consumers of their content directly connected, but clearly this doesn' | ||
And all this means promoting the network everywhere. Peering Coordinators have an important role at each network operator, as they both plan the strategy for optimising traffic flow between external networks and the operator' | And all this means promoting the network everywhere. Peering Coordinators have an important role at each network operator, as they both plan the strategy for optimising traffic flow between external networks and the operator' | ||
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+ | ===== Searching PeeringDB ===== | ||
Trawling through the PeeringDB looking for operators is one strategy, especially for seeking peering at private datacentre facilities the operator is present at - it's rare that the data centre operator will provide a customer contact list for someone to use to go ask for peering. Hence the value of PeeringDB. | Trawling through the PeeringDB looking for operators is one strategy, especially for seeking peering at private datacentre facilities the operator is present at - it's rare that the data centre operator will provide a customer contact list for someone to use to go ask for peering. Hence the value of PeeringDB. | ||
- | The other very effective way of gaining more peers is to take part in an activity known as Peering Personals. These form part of almost every network operator group (NOG) meeting today, and allows the operator to display a one page slide showing the operator' | + | PeeringDB is also valuable to show what the most popular interconnect locations are (private datacentres and IXPs) and that can also help guide a network operator as to what its strategy should be as it expands its network to other locations both in-country and internationally. |
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+ | ===== Peering Personals ===== | ||
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+ | The other very effective way of gaining more peers is to take part in an activity known as Peering Personals. These form part of almost every network operator group (NOG) meeting today, and allows the operator to display a one page slide showing the operator' | ||
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+ | A typical Peering Personal slide might look like this (excerpt from the Peering Personals sessions at APRICOT 2023 in Manila, Philippines): | ||
- | A typical Peering Personal might look like this: | + | {{ :peering-toolbox: |
- | {{:peering-toolbox: | + | A full example of what typically happens at Peering Personals sessions can be seen by consulting the APRICOT 2023 Peering Personals [[https:// |
+ | Once the value of this "speed dating" | ||
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