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I believe Germany is the 'big transit upstream' of Iran. I haven't found UAE to really be a genuine hub with IXs, it seems like every incumbent ISP/UAE ISP wil
by dylz 7y ago
I believe Germany is the 'big transit upstream' of Iran.
I haven't found UAE to really be a genuine hub with IXs, it seems like every incumbent ISP/UAE ISP will have 'selective' peering, refuse to be on the routeservers, and refuse to peer with 'outsiders' even if you are on the damn exchange.
- kitteh 7y agoIt's gotten better in the last year. But there are still problems with the locals buying a small ix port and it gets congested. The biggest challenge in the area is the the asymmetry. I could learn the routes if a network in the gulf I want, but they will refuse to accept my prefixes and force the return traffic by Europe unless I pay in some fashion.
- yorwba 7y ago> I believe Germany is the 'big transit upstream' of Iran. There's a bunch of countries in between, so how does that work?
- kitteh 7y agoDomestic carrier buys optical transport from their country that goes back towards europe. They'll drop some network infra in Europe and buy transit from folks like tata/dtag/telecom Italia. Check https://as49666.peeringdb.com https://as49666.peeringdb.com to see where they land in eu.
- dylz 7y agoA set of networks, cables, and routers, presumably :) On my routes to parsonline I see this: dubai -> italy -> france -> germany (ffm) -> iran The germany to iran leg might be doing mpls or something, I don't see anything in between it other than a lot of timed out hops.