[ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering

Sorry for the late response.  Yes, it is totally inefficient (and strange) 
to have traffic between the GCC countries to go through the US.

Not only will it add latency you are also unecessary using up some very 
expensive long haul bandwidth.  BTW:  On latency, while the longer round 
trip propagation delay is clearly a factor, the real pain is additional 
router hops.  Routers are real nasty since besides queueing delay, they are 
congestion points.  The impact of packet loss [on TCP] is orders of 
magnitude more than any propagation delay, since you will have to pay the 
direct penality of time out [to discover you have lost a packet] as well as 
suffer longer term side effect of having you transmission window reduced.

In any event, you should peer with each other within the GCC.  From 
engineering point of view, NAP makes a lot of sense.  However, practically, 
most of the ISPs do bi-lateral rather than multilateral peering at a single 
location so the NAP's role is somewhat diminished.

Best regards,
John



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saleem Albalooshi" <saleem at nic.ae>
To: <ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 2:26 AM
Subject: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering


> Dear All,
> Kindly find below a writeup about the importance of establishing peering 
> connectivity between the regional ISP's, please feel free to correct or 
> comment on any technical or linguistic information in the writeup below.
>
> Saleem Al-Balooshi
> UAEnic
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