Re: [44net] On Allocations, PoPs, and Proposals

Next to AMS-IX, or are you actually peering on AMS-IX? A valid consideration for future POP locations should be internet exchange connectivity. A 100gig connection could be great (if used) but if you want lower latency an IX will be much better than some large transit provider, especially if you are connecting to a geographically local POP. The whole POP proposal reads likes a CDN build but without mentioning the criticality of being peered on exchange points. IXs serve many purposes but one of them is keeping local traffic local, and thus latency "low". I only ask to bring it up as part of the discussion and so I know at least someone else who is dealing with 44net prefixes and an IX 😉 -C -----Original Message----- From: 44Net <44net-bounces+colin.bodor=imperium.ca(a)mailman.ampr.org> On Behalf Of Rob PE1CHL via 44Net Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 1:21 To: 44net(a)mailman.ampr.org Cc: Rob PE1CHL <44net(a)pe1chl.nl> Subject: Re: [44net] On Allocations, PoPs, and Proposals Pierre, You should not read too much into that remark that bandwidth is not the first concern. I does not mean "we may as well have bad bandwidth and poor performance", but rather that we are not using that much bandwidth that we need to have the fastest connections and the fastest routers. At the moment our 44.137.0.0/16 gateway has a 1Gbit internet connection but it on average uses only about 30 Mbit/s with peaks of up to ~100 Mbit/s (in each direction).   At this moment we are busy moving the servers to a different datacenter because the old one is going to close down, and there we will get 10 Gbit/s but the new datacenter offers us up to 100 Gbit/s.  We have chosen not to go that way for now because our equipment has only up to 10 Gbit/s interfaces and going higher would mean more investment.  I think that is not warranted at this time.  Maybe if we would host a PoP in a worldwide backbone and would get connections from more countries.  But at that time it can always be changed. This of course has no influence on latency, that is determined by physical location.  We will be next to the AMS-IX. Rob On 8/3/21 12:48 AM, pete M via 44Net wrote: _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net