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Now I am really mixed up. How else would an independent ISP get to "the internet at large"? Isn't that what a peering agreement is all about at an IXP?
by crispyambulance 10y ago
Now I am really mixed up. How else would an independent ISP get to "the internet at large"? Isn't that what a peering agreement is all about at an IXP?
- devicenull 10y agoThey'd have to buy transit from a provider. Peering is connectivity between two ISPs. Transit is connectivity between you and the rest of the internet.
- crispyambulance 10y agoThere are perhaps missing details, but Guifi seems to have "become" a provider by having "enough" customers. They got a peering connection. There's a threshold beyond which peering make more sense than transit... (http://packetpushers.net/transit-vs-peering-makes-sense/ http://packetpushers.net/transit-vs-peering-makes-sense/).