Motivations For Peering
Peering involves two networks coming together to exchange traffic with each other freely, and for mutual benefit. This 'mutual benefit' is most often the motivation behind peering, which is often described solely by "reduced costs for transit services". Other less tangible motivations can include:
- Increased redundancy (by reducing dependence on one or more transit providers).
- Increased capacity for extremely large amounts of traffic (distributing traffic across many networks).
- Increased routing control over your traffic.
- Improved performance (attempting to bypass potential bottlenecks with a "direct" path).
- Improved perception of your network (being able to claim a "higher tier").
- Ease of requesting for emergency aid (from friendly peers).
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