[ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering

BTW:  NAP is a convenient place to for ISPs to physically converge.

It offers the ISPs with circuits to the NAP the opportunity to peer. 
However, peering is really a business decision.

Hence even though ISP A, B, C and D are coming to the NAP. I (ISP X) may 
only want to peer with ISP A and C, because I only want to do business with 
them.

And then there is the issue of the size of the pipes your potential peer 
brings to the NAP (you could be bringing an OC192 while the other guy is 
only bring in an OC12) as well as the relative traffic ... My peer may be 
creating a lot of traffic on my link while the reverse is not true ... that 
is where settlement (as in money) comes in.

For a middle east NAP, it will really add value if you can attract some big 
US and European ISP to bring a link in too.  That way, the long haul traffic 
can flow in their pipe rather than your pipe.  Again, settlement will be an 
isue.

Finally, NAP is a logically place for a co-lo operation.  Good place to out 
web server since you are one hop away from many ISPs (as long as you pay). 
It is also good place for an organization to have a multi-home router.  So 
if I am multi-home to 3 ISPs, instead of buying 3 circuits from wherever I 
am to the POP of the 3 ISPs, I can just buy one circuit to the NAP and 
connect to all 3 ISOs there (...ok ...there is the issue of circuit 
redundancy).

Best regards,
John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moeen Aqrabawi" <aqrabawi at eim.ae>
To: "'John Leong'" <leong at qatar.cmu.edu>; "'Saleem Albalooshi'" 
<saleem at nic.ae>; <ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering

I absolutely agree with Saleem and John,

Last week I was in a workshop prepared by the ITU Arab regional office on IP 
Strategies and IDN Issues, a good initiative/proposal from our colleagues in 
Bahrain exchange was presented at the workshop on the same subject.

Basically, the initiative is about having 3 interconnected NAPs one for the 
GCC countries in Dubai; second one for the Middle East Arab countries in 
Egypt and the last one for western Arab countries in Morocco.

I believe this initiative worth to be discussed.

You can download the presentation from 
http://www.ituarabic.org/IPS-IDN/Documents/Doc08- NAP FOR THE ARAB 
STATES.ppt

Some more documents on ADN and other stuff are presented and also available 
for download on http://www.ituarabic.org/IPS-IDN/

Best Regards

A. Moeen Aqrabawi
Etisalat/UAE