Paper Review: norton2010 A Business Case for Peering in 2010 Reviewed by Jean Paul NIZEYIMANA CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

- RWANDA ID NUMBER : 700050483 The paper is concerning the Internet Peering. The aim of this paper is to find o ut if Internet Peering still makes sense with the low price of Internet Transit. The author use d financial proof using statistics results from the field to attain this aim. The author demonstrated the "Peering Break Even Analysis Graph," which is a financial model for the cost of peering as compared with the cost of transit. The author showed the relationship between ISP and Internet Transit, to connect themselves to the internet, ISPs need Internet Transit which is a service they have to purchase from an ISP wich is connected to the internet. To determine the cost of traffic exchange in a transit for the month, the author used 95th Percentile Measurement. Internet Transit prices has been always reduced. According to DrPeering.net in 1 998 it was $1200 per Mbps now in 2012 is assumed to be $2.34 per Mbps and is predicted to be $0.63 per Mbp s in 2015. Contrarily to the price the volume of internet transit has historically increase d. This is due to the fact that users are experiencing new technology services that use high-bandwidth such as videos and large volume music download. To manage this, large scale ISPs and Content Distributors measure their transit traffic flows to determine where their transit traffic is ultimately delivered. The author defined Internet Peering as the business relationship whereby compani es reciprocally provide access to each others customers. The execution of Internet Peering is a local traffic. The cost of peering at an Internet Exchange Point implicates four cost component s which are: Transport of the traffic into the exchange point, Colocation space, Equipment, a nd a port on the exchange point shared fabric. It is good to peer when is it less expensive to send traffic over a Peering Inte rconnection, as compared with simply sending all traffic to upstream ISPs in a Transit relationship. The author compared the cost of Peering and Transit in 2010. After analyzing the author came up with four key peering metrics for determining when peering makes sense from a purely financial perspective, which are Peering Break Even Point, Minimum Cost for Traffic Exchange,

Effective Peering Bandwidth and Effective Peering Range. QUESTIONS: 1. Based on the analysis done by DrPeering.net on Internet Transit Prices, one c an assume that in 2018 the price will be 0. What will be the impact of this on Internet Service Providers? Why this price decl ines while Internet traffic volumes have always grown.? 2. To calculate the traffic volume for the month they used 95th percentile meas ure, is there another method to calculate the traffic volume for a year or I have to multiply the 95th percentile results by 12? or Calculate month by m onth and at the end make a sum of them.