peering
A Clear Path to 100Gigabit Ethernet on the Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Portfolio
White Paper Leveraging the power and flexibility of innovative FP2 silicon, the service router portfolio goes far beyond faster transport: unleashing powerful 100GigE interfaces that support the full scope and scale of broadband services such as... [02 Oct 2009]
Interconnecting Eyeballs to Content: A Shapley Value Perspective on ISP Peering and Settlement
White Paper Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must interconnect to provide global Internet connectivity to users. The payment structure of these interconnections are often negotiated and maintained via bilateral agreements. [29 Nov 2008]
The Shapley Value Mechanism for ISP Settlement
White Paper Peering agreements based on local views and bilateral settlements, while expedient, encourage selfish routing strategies and discriminatory interconnections. From a more global perspective, such settlements reduce... [29 Nov 2008]
Fighting Peer-to-Peer SPAM and Decoys With Object Reputation
White Paper Peer-to-peer filesharing is now commonplace and its traffic now dominates bandwidth consumption at many Internet peering points. Recent studies indicate that much of this filesharing activity involves corrupt and... [14 Oct 2008]
Round three for BT's Phorm trials
News We're not going to be peering behind the curtain. Phorm's technology, which BT will use under the brand of 'Webwise', has attracted protests from peers, politicians, technologists and think tanks, who have expressed... [29 Sep 2008]
Foundry and London Internet Exchange: Powering the Internet at 10 Gig Speeds
White Paper The London Internet Exchange (LINX), one of the largest Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in the world, offers cost-effective Internet peering to content delivery providers and ISPs. To accommodate a burgeoning membership... [18 Jul 2008]
On the Optimality and Interconnection of Valiant Load-Balancing Networks
White Paper It generalizes the VLB design to enable interconnection of multiple VLB networks, and study interconnection via bilateral peering agreements as well as transit agreements. The paper shows that using VLB as a transit... [10 Jul 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo After squinting and peering hopelessly through years of screen grime, and finally resorting to moving desks to gain shade from a nearby tree, I'm eventually up and running, and connected to the wi-fi. [08 Jul 2008]
BGP Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness
White Paper The peering session is maintained throughout the entire NSF operation. Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) awareness allows a router to assist NSF-capable neighbors to continue forwarding packets during a Stateful Switchover (SSO)... [12 Jun 2008]
Photos: Eye across the Atlantic
Photo The elaborate gold telescope, pictured, houses an oval screen to give the illusion of peering into a intercontinental kaleidoscope. New Yorkers peering into their Telectroscope can enjoy this fine view... [28 May 2008]
Performance Modeling on the Interaction of ISPs
White Paper At the same time, a tier-2 ISP can also arrange to have "Private peering" links with other tier-2 ISPs. Therefore, each tier-2 ISP can optimize its utility by deciding on the proper traffic routing of transmitting... [24 Oct 2007]
Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem
White Paper Peering Ecosystem as the Cable Companies, Large Scale Network Savvy Content Companies, and Tier 2 ISPs started peering openly. By peering with directly each other they effectively... [19 Oct 2007]
Why It Pays to Buy IP Transit Instead of Building Your Own International IP Network
White Paper In recent years, there has been a tendency among ISPs to abandon the IP Transit service in favor of solutions based on extending own network capacity and signing peering agreements with other ISPs. An Internet Service... [19 Oct 2007]
High Performance Web Sites - Rule 4: Gzip Components
White Paper It's true that the end user's bandwidth speed, Internet service provider, proximity to peering exchange points, and other factors are beyond the control of the development team. The time it takes to transfer an HTTP... [10 Oct 2007]
Mutually Controlled Routing With Independent ISPs
White Paper Wiser is a simple extension of BGP, uses only existing peering contracts for monetary exchange, and can be incrementally deployed. This paper presents Wiser, an Internet routing protocol that enables ISPs to jointly... [09 Jun 2007]