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Define dead and public. If you say public is without peering then that is just the Tier 1s you need to pay money to in order to use.
by wbl 7y ago
Define dead and public. If you say public is without peering then that is just the Tier 1s you need to pay money to in order to use.
- halbritt 7y ago"Public" in the old school sense like PAIX or MAE-West or some such. "Dead" in the sense that you can't use them to move any meaningful amount of traffic. There are still IXPs in the world (i.e. Equinix) where one can move a meaningful amount of traffic and you're perfectly correct in that you'll still need to pay for transit for the tier 1s.