ESnet Peering
Improved peering (63= NSPs), examples:
- MCI & Sprint to avoid public interconnect swamps
- University of California (avoid Sprint)
- THEnet at UT Austin
- vBNS
- East Coast in place since Feb-97 (avoid W Orange MCI)
- West Coast May 1997
- Chicago to come
- Hubs at DC, Oakland, San Diego, Chicago
- Now carry > 45K routes
Notes:
Oct 1996 28 public meeting points
April 1997 65 public meeting points
ISPs doing more private peering to minimize packet loss
MAE-East in Virginia is the most frequented public hub, traffic grown 97% June 1996-Apr-1997
MAE-West in San Jose is second, traffic growth of 280% in 10 months
MAE-West has 3 Gigaswitches (2-3Gbps capacity each), each averaging 700Mbps.