Good Peering Practices

1. Good Peering Practices
bdNOG - May 2014

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Topics
● Why and where to peer
● Types of peering
● Business and technical steps
● [stats]
● Common reasons for delays
● Managing your peering
● Top Tips

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Why peer?
CC photos by: Open Source, Dave Cross, San Jose Library
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Where to peer?
No “single source of truth” - lots of resources
● peeringDB.com
● IXP Maps
● provider maps / data
● ask your NOG!

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as15169.peeringdb.com

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www.internetexchangemap.com

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another map / large network or content
provider
www.cloudflare.com/network-map

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http://goo.gl/3VnNZn

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SANOG23 Virtualisation Group (src: unknown)

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control (quality)
r-server
IXP switch
ISP A
ISP B
Route-Server
peering
cost, resources
ISP A
ISP B
Direct peering
(PNI)ISP A
ISP B
Public peering
(bilateral)
IXP switch
BGP
Physical

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Business and technical steps: public / bilateral
“A survey of 142,000 peering agreements conducted for this report
shows that … 99.5% of interconnection agreements are concluded
without a written contract” DOI :10.1787/20716826
Agree settlement
and contract
basis
Turnup
BGP
Traffic
flows!

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Business and technical steps: PNI
● who orders xcnt usually provides IPs
● non-ordering party provides demarc and LoA
Agree settlement
and contract
basis
Agree
xcnt
orderer
Install,
test xcnt
Turnup
BGP
...

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[comparison of PNI turnup times]
- total PNI turnup time avg [days] - ideally a range with median, max,
min
- broken down by region, eg NA, SA, APAC, EMEA

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[comparison of time steps]
Ideally for S Asian peers, [india, SL, Bd, pk, bt, np]
- broken down time on mains steps - ideally.

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Common reasons for delays
Issue Mitigation to reduce delays
Peer not ready to provide demarc (circuit,
router not in place)
- Clearly signal expected readiness
- Double check own resources before commitment
Cross-connect troubleshooting (fibers wrong-
way, dirty, ports not free)
- Have direct contact details of xcnt provider
- Support ‘live’ troubleshooting
Misunderstandings on process, roles and
responsibilities
- Attend industry fora, ask for advice
- Clear agreement on bus/tech steps at the start
Google infrastructure constraints [!] - Ask if Google has any constraints (we should tell
you!)

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Managing your peering
Peering is up and traffic is flowing! All done?
NO!!
You need to now:
1. monitor (up/down, traffic levels) - most do this OK
2. plan for augments - most could do this much better
3. plan for resilience - most could do this much better

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Closing: top tips
DON’T
★ assume peering relationships
are ‘provider-customer’
★ forget to plan for capacity and
resilience
★ [xxx]
DO
★ plan carefully why you want to
peer - and where
★ develop a specific peering
coordinator role
★ keep PeeringDB.com up-to-
date
★ maintain multiple paths