Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Peering Economics for Content Providers March 29, 2007 Dani Roisman

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Introductions – Dani Roisman First Router: Cisco 2501, c First ISP: PSINet (loved their customer training sessions) First BGP Session: CerfNet c (remember EverQuest?) First Content Peer: Adelphia, 2003 Architected and ran SOE’s network from 1997 – 2005 Here at Peak Web Consulting since December 2005

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Introductions – Peak Web Consulting The “Jeffrey Papen” Company I’m at the peak of Mt. McKinley, Alaska: 20,320’ July 11th 2006, 4:35 PM

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Introductions – Peak Web Consulting Founded 2003 Outsourced high-end network engineering for design, architecture, and implementation Focused on ROI to save customers more than Peak costs Peering, multi-homing, transit negotiations, Colo interconnectivity, national backbone mgmt. Proprietary network monitoring suite of tools We’re always hiring

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Definitions Used Eyeball Network: –Network that is access-heavy, predominantly residential broadband or college/university end-users, *inbound* traffic (what has been happening with P2P?) Content Network: –Network that is server-heavy, video, music, games, downloads, e-commerce, CDN, *outbound* traffic, but ratios differ based on content type

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Why am I here? Promoting Content Peering Educate Content Providers on savings opportunities Demonstrate savings are at *every* level Representing a few content companies: come see me

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Why do Content Networks Peer? $$$

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Why do Content Networks Peer? Reason #1: $$$ Cost savings $$$ These other reasons sound good too… –Performance benefits: reduce number of “network hops” in effort to minimize latency and maximize throughput –Relationship building: peering provides direct access to NOCs, network information, and visibility that may otherwise only be available to a customer –Scaling: limits dependency on ISP resources

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman What is the cost of peering? It helps if you’re already in the IX for improved ISP options.. otherwise –IX Colo / Power –Layer 2 Transport to IX Exchange Port and/or x-connect fees Cap Ex: routers, switches, optics, ports (often shared with the transit gear) Op Ex: Network Engineers (or Peak)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example Scenarios The following will demonstrate examples of peering economics They are based on real environments, but key details have been changed to protect NDAs A bit oversimplified – figure the obvious costs first, see if the rest will fit into annual savings

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #1 Year 2003 Game content company Single-homed in Los Angeles Pushes $175/Mbps Peering cost of $5000 MRC Break even is 28.5 Mbps ($5000 / $175) 20% peered (160 Mbps) $23,012 MRS (( ) * $175)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #1 $276,150 Annual Savings Year 2003 Game content company Single-homed in Los Angeles Pushes $175/Mbps Peering cost of $5000 MRC Break even is 28.5 Mbps ($5000 / $175) 20% peered (160 Mbps) $23,012 MRS (( ) * $175)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #2 Year 2005 Game content company Los Angeles & Ashburn w/Gig Backbone Pushes 1.5 $35/Mbps Peering cost of $10,000 MRC Break even is 286 Mbps ($10,000 / $35) 30% peered (500 Mbps) $7,490 MRS (( ) * $35)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #2 $89,880 Annual Savings Year 2005 Game content company Los Angeles & Ashburn w/Gig Backbone Pushes 1.5 $35/Mbps Peering cost of $10,000 MRC Break even is 286 Mbps ($10,000 / $35) 30% peered (500 Mbps) $7,490 MRS (( ) * $35)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #3 Year 2006 “Language transcendent” content provider Single homed in San Jose Pushes 6 $18/Mbps Peering cost of $8,000 MRC Break even is 444 Mbps ($8,000 / $18) 15% peered (900 Mbps) $8,208 MRS (( ) * $18)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #3 $98,496 Annual Savings Year 2006 “Language transcendent” content provider Single homed in San Jose Pushes 6 $18/Mbps Peering cost of $8,000 MRC Break even is 444 Mbps ($8,000 / $18) 15% peered (900 Mbps) $8,208 MRS (( ) * $18)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #4 Year 2007 Typical Web content company Single-homed in Los Angeles (small IX) Pushes 500 $33 / Mbps Peering cost of $1,500 MRC Break even is 45 Mbps ($1,500 / $33) 10% peered traffic (50Mbit/s) $165 MRS ((50-5) * $33)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #4 Savings small, but able to peer at low vol. Year 2007 Typical Web content company Single-homed in Los Angeles (small IX) Pushes 500 $33 / Mbps Peering cost of $1,500 MRC Break even is 45 Mbps ($1,500 / $33) 10% peered traffic (50Mbit/s) $165 MRS ((50-5) * $33)

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #5 Year 2007 Large Content website Pushes 65 Gigs Public Peering cost of $17.77/Mbps Private Peering cost of $1.33/Mbps Peering Blended is $3.83/Mbps

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #5 Annual 15% peered $10 /Mbps: $721,890 $15/Mbps: $1,306,890 $20/Mbps: $1,891,890 Year 2007 Large Content website Pushes 65 Gigs Public Peering cost of $17.77/Mbps Private Peering cost of $1.33/Mbps Peering Blended is $3.83/Mbps

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #5 w/ Backbone Improve peering negotiation position by adding a National 10Gig backbone across 4 PoPs Backbone Costs $45,000 MRC

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Example #5 w/ Backbone Annual 40% peered $10/Mbps: $1,385,040 $15/Mbps: $2,945,040 $20/Mbps: $4,505,040 Improve peering negotiation position by adding a National 10Gig backbone across 4 PoPs Backbone Costs $45,000 MRC

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman Downside to content peering Reduced negotiating powers with ISP Operational complexity –more moving parts –Requirement for Peering expertise Concerns about security / stability, introducing additional BGP speakers Reference Vijay Gill, GPF1.5 Oct 2006: ISP count reduction No SLA (even with BLPA!), scares some enterprise folks

Peering Economics for Content Providers / GPF2.0 / Dani Roisman What’s the point? Savings can be realized for any moderately-sized network While peering costs have not dropped at the same rate as transit costs, there is still a justification for content peering This is especially true for the large bandwidth players Challenges for content peering as the eyeball networks are acquired by large ISPs

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