Re: internet - sparkle

[Jared Geiger <jared () compuwizz net>]

I assumed your AS number is 16527 and looked up who you currently are
peering with.

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> What's an eyeball network ?
>
> How do you know my "current mix is decent" ?
>
> Btw, I have onsite the cdn's aanp, ggc, oca, fna, so only about ~60% of my
> customer traffic is from Internet uplinks...  ~40% is served from local
> cdn's
>
>
> Aaron
>
> > On May 16, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Jared Geiger <jared () compuwizz net> wrote:
> >
> > If most of your traffic is for US based destinations, you might see
> worse performance since Sparkle doesn't seem to have many US POPs/Peering
> locations compared to Centurylink/Level3 or HE. You'd probably benefit more
> by pulling in some peering from Dallas than adding or replacing a transit
> provider as your current mix is decent for an eyeball network. Pick up
> peering with Cloudflare, Netflix, Amazon, EdgeCast, Facebook, Apple,
> Akamai, and Microsoft in Dallas and you might even be able to get rid of
> one of your transit providers.
> > Sparkle would "shine" if you were a US hosting provider with many
> eyeballs in Europe/Africa/Middle East.
> > > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
> wrote:
> > > On 16/May/18 16:54, Aaron Gould wrote:
> > > > .written in 12/2015 - do y'all think this is accurate, and, in 2018,
> is it
> > > > still accurate ? (asking since my next question is related to
> Sparkle, since
> > > > they are listed in that previous article as a significant Internet
> presence)
> > > I don't know about "owning" the Internet, but I would agree with the
> > > article re: the 7 key global transit providers as things stand in 2018.
> > >
> > > It matches up with our own compliment of transit providers in our
> > > network (AS37100).
> > >
> > >
> > > > My coworker just got back from ITW/Chicago and he is considering
> Sparkle as
> > > > an additional Internet provider for the ISP I work for in San
> Antonio, TX .
> > > > we would need to uplink to Sparkle in the central Texas area
> somehow.  He
> > > > mentioned that Sparkle may be in McAllen / Dallas and could possibly,
> in the
> > > > future be in Austin or San Antonio
> > >
> > > My initial experience with TI Sparkle was in South East Asia back in
> > > '08. They were decent.
> > >
> > > We have them in our stable, and like them for their South American
> coverage.
> > > Mark.