| Title | DescriptionD |
|---|---|
| Offering | The peering service is a feature of the GÉANT IP service to provide the R&E community with a high quality commodity internet service (towards commercial Internet and content providers). |
| Reason to Act | The fast paced adoption of cloud-services, social networking and distribution of content and material through content-delivery-networks (CDN) makes the connectivity to those networks as well as the connectivity to other end-user networks increasingly important. By reducing and removing the constrains presented by traditional ISPs in the connectivity chain there is a higher probability that the user does not experience connectivity or reachability issues at any point. |
| Customer Experience | Seamless access to commerial peers and content provider integrated with the GÉANT IP service. |
| Benefits | Simple: No separate contract for commodity internet Flexible and secure: List of peers agreed within the GÉANT community Cheap: cheaper than most of the ISP rates High quality: peering integrated within the GÉANT network infrastructure |
| Cost | There is no cost to join GÉANT Peering |
| Time | Immediately available with the GÉANT IP subscription |
| Alternatives | Private agreements with Internet Commodity Provider |
| Advantages | Cost effective, flexible solution to provide commodity internet for GÉANT IP users. |
| Engagement | List of peers agreed within the APM community and communicated in advance. Peering policy agreed within the GÉANT consortium partners. Each BGP community will be maintained as part of the general BGP commodity policy document maintain by the OPS team. The general policy document is available to all NRENs on the partner portal at:https://partner.geant.net/Operations/Technical%20Documentation/routing%20policies/Pages/home.aspx |
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