Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

*nods* instead of paying for protection, I'd rather just engineer a completely diverse route, preferable to a different 
Z location. Potential for greater diversity, you get more capacity. Costs may vary. 


I've seen similar things regarding 1G and less. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Darin Steffl" <darin.steffl () mnwifi com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net> 
Cc: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>, "nanog list" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 3:40:50 PM 
Subject: Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939 


Yes but they're $$$ to have protection. Generally ethernet will be cheaper than waves with the added protection. 


I'm not arguing for one or the other. Waves will often be cheaper when looking at 10G or 100G compared to ethernet. For 
1G or less, ethernet might be cheaper with some protection already built-in. 


On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 3:31 PM Mike Hammett < nanog () ics-il net > wrote: 




*nods* There are protected wave services generally available if you wish to protect about such things. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 



From: "Darin Steffl" < darin.steffl () mnwifi com > 
To: "Mike Hammett" < nanog () ics-il net > 
Cc: "Eric Kuhnke" < eric.kuhnke () gmail com >, "nanog list" < nanog () nanog org > 
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 3:08:19 PM 
Subject: Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939 


The downside to waves are that they're typically not protected. So a cut will take you down. If you have 10G Layer 2 
ethernet, they often will have redundant paths so the only single path that can fail is between you and their first POP 
where they hopefully have redundancy. It can make a big difference when you're transporting data hundreds or thousands 
of miles. The longer the path, the less reliable the wave will be as each route mile opens you up to more risk. 


On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 2:25 PM Mike Hammett < nanog () ics-il net > wrote: 

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I suppose it depends on your carrier and their capabilities. 

I much prefer waves to any kind of service that you can aggregate. Being able to aggregate just means they're going to 
oversubscribe you and at some point, you'll not get what you're paying for. Can't do that on a wave. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

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From: "Eric Kuhnke" < eric.kuhnke () gmail com > 
To: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" < lists () packetflux com > 
Cc: "nanog list" < nanog () nanog org > 
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 2:25:46 AM 
Subject: Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939 



For small ISPs looking at setting up their first ever presence at an IX point, you almost certainly would not be 
ordering an actual 'wave' (eg: a specific DWDM channel on a legacy 10G DWDM platform, handed off to you with 1310/LX 
interfaces at both ends), but lit layer 2 transport service between the carrier hotel and your service location. 



Pricing for the two types of service can be quite different when you request an actual 'wave' from a carrier sales 
person, vs just lit L2 transport capable of large MTUs, QinQ, etc. 



The ISP carrying it might take it between those two places as simply a vlan trunked through a larger 100G link, as a 
MPLS circuit, lots of possible things. 



Unless you happened to be in a happy conjunction of the right place at the right time, and an older DWDM system on 
exactly the same path you wanted happened to have an empty channel and ready to go interface cards at both ends. 












On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:12 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < lists () packetflux com > wrote: 

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Generally one would order a circuit (aka wave) between your location and the IX fabric at the interchange if you're not 
at the site you're wanting to peer at. 


For instance, the network I am the network engineer for has a circuit which terminates into the Seattle IX (SIX) 
fabric. We don't have any other presence in Seattle (or Washington for that matter) at this point - our circuit 
connects directly to our port on the Exchange. We're considering adding a similar link to another exchange point 
somewhere to the east or southeast of us. I haven't looked at the graphs recently, but it's not uncommon for >50% of 
our traffic to come from the exchange. And yes, we're peered with Hurricane and others there. 


We're also looking at dropping 1U or so of equipment in so we can pick up some transit as well, but that's a story for 
a different day about the joys of providing internet in the less populated parts of the country. 


In your case, it also looks like there are also some peering options at the datacenters you are currently at as well. 
You may want to do some more research to determine how that might work in your situation. PeeringDB is a good resource 
along with google searches for "peering 100 Taylor" or "peering austin data foundry" 







On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:51 PM < aaron1 () gvtc com > wrote: 

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Don’t you have to be there to join? 

I’m in Austin and San Antonio 

-Aaron 



From: Mike Hammett < nanog () ics-il net > 
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 7:20 PM 
To: Aaron Gould < aaron1 () gvtc com > 
Cc: nanog () nanog org 
Subject: Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939 


https://bgp.he.net/AS16527 



You don't appear to be on any IXes. Definitely join some IXes before buying another 100G of transit. 



DFW has a couple and there are some more that are starting up. 





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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 




From: "Aaron Gould" < aaron1 () gvtc com > 
To: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:29:55 PM 
Subject: Hurricane Electric AS6939 

Do y’all like HE for Internet uplink? I’m thinking about using them for 100gig in Texas. It would be for my eyeballs 
ISP. We currently have Spectrum, Telia and Cogent. 

-Aaron 





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