peering
RSS peeringVideo 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]
Ethernet Peering: Challenges and Opportunities
White Paper Until recently, the concept of Ethernet Peering was at best a foreign concept, or at worse a contradiction in terms. But as the industry focuses on Layer 2 networks and as increasingly large Ethernet networks are... [25 Feb 2004]
Internet Service Providers and Peering
White Paper Internet Service Provider (ISP) peering has emerged as one of the most important and effective ways for ISPs to improve the efficiency of operation. Peering is defined as "An interconnection business... [19 Oct 2007]
A Business Case for ISP Peering
White Paper Discussions with ISP Peering Coordinators identified Internet Service Provider (ISP) "Peering" as one of the most effective methods of reducing telecommunications costs for ISPs. The ISP... [19 Oct 2007]
Internet Peering Solutions for Backbone Carriers
White Paper Peering concepts are the abstract and invisible foundation for the service level agreements (SLAs) that service providers negotiate with their customers. State- of- the- art solutions based on Alcatel's ALMA Vision... [03 Jul 2008]
Pricing, Provisioning and Peering: Dynamic Markets for Differentiated Internet Services and Implications for Network Interconnections
White Paper This paper presents a decentralized auction-based approach to pricing of edge-allocated bandwidth in a differentiated services Internet. The players in our network economy model are one raw-capacity seller per network, one broker per... [25 Feb 2004]
Case Study: Peering Through the Network Cloud
White Paper Sappi Fine Paper North America (Sappi) is a division of Sappi, Ltd.of Johannesburg, South Africa, whose 19 mills in Africa, Europe and North America produce more than $4 billion in paper products annually. [29 Aug 2006]
Strategic Network Formation Through Peering and Service Agreements
White Paper This paper introduces a game theoretic model of network formation in an effort to understand the complex system of business relationships between various Internet entities (e.g. Autonomous Systems, enterprise networks, residential... [07 Dec 2006]
Modeling the Peering and Routing Tussle Between ISPs and P2P Applications
White Paper The connectivity between millions of nodes on the Internet is provided by the interconnection of many ISPs' networks. These ISPs, in their decisions to peer with each other, define a set of transit relationships. [19 Oct 2007]
Peering and Provisioning of Differentiated Internet Services
White Paper A key consideration in building differentiated network services is the feasibitity of maintaining stable and consistent service level agreements across multiple network where allocations are made only on the edges. [25 Feb 2004]
Surveillance Detection in High Bandwidth Environments
White Paper This paper describes System Detection's surveillance detection techniques for enclave environments (ESD) and peering center environments (PSD) and evaluates each technique over data gathered from two different network... [11 Jul 2008]
PSINet gets ultimatum from C&W
News Cable and Wireless (C&W) is threatening to axe its free peering agreement with cash-strapped PSINet unless the troubled ISP drums up more traffic within the next 60 days. Failure to deliver the required volume of... [07 Jun 2001]
Service Level Agreements for DiffServ-Based Services~ Provisioning
White Paper SLAs define the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the services provided from a network provider to peering networks or customers. This paper defines a template for the SLA structure to support the provision... [10 Aug 2006]
Skype rings up deal with C&W
News SkypeOut lets VoIP users make calls to traditional fixed line and mobile numbers, which means Skype must have peering agreements with other telcos who will let its VoIP traffic run from the Internet onto their networks. [22 Dec 2004]
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]
