1. confidential and propriety 2006 Quilt Peering Survey Results

2. confidential and propriety Peering Survey Response Rates Quilt Participants 15 of 25 Members 1 Affiliate Non-respondents: LEARN, MAGPI, MAX, Northern Lights, NYSERNet Received but not included: WiscREN Not expecting: OSHEAN, SURA, OneNet

3. confidential and propriety The Quilt’s Peering Calculator Commercial/Commodity N=11 Collective Inbound: 8898.8 Mbps Collective Outbound: 4801.3 Mbps Est. Monthly Savings: $186,992 Est. Annual Savings: $2,243,901 Reported $/meg –Average = $25 –Highest = $50 –Lowest = $5

4. confidential and propriety Commodity/Commercial Peering Observations 103 commodity/commercial peers reported –42% private –58% public Percentage of total bandwidth provisioned=56,915mbps Percentage of provisioned peering bandwidth used=16%

5. confidential and propriety Commodity/Commercial Provisioned Peering Bandwidth by Type

6. confidential and propriety Examples of Commercial/Commodity Peering Partners Commercial ISP’s BellSouth Cogent Comcast Cox Earthlink GlobalNAPS Telcove Time Warner Road Runner WilTel Content Providers Altopia City-Guide Google Limelight MSN Web-hosting DalNet Hotmail NetNation NOANet RG Net Spry.com

7. confidential and propriety Quilt Commercial/Commodity Peerings Reported by Type N=103 Unknown category includes both private and public exchanges without member information provided

8. confidential and propriety RON R&E Peerings RON-to-RONRON-to-National R&E 25 Established 9 In-Process 39 Established 1 In-Process N=16

9. confidential and propriety Common Quilt Member Peering Locations LocationQuilt MemberFacility Owner 710 North Shore Chicago, IL Merit MREN OARNet PNWGP Northwestern University Level3 POP Toledo, OH Merit OARNet Level3 624 W 7th Los Angeles, CA CENIC PNWGP CRG West 600 W 7th Los Angeles, CA CENIC PNWGP Equinix 818 W 7th Los Angeles, CA CENIC PNWGP Equinix 529 Bryant Palo Alto, CA CENIC PNWGP Switch and Data 1360 Kifer Road Sunnyvale, CA CENIC PNWGP Level3 56 Marietta St, Atlanta, GA SoX FLR TelX

10. confidential and propriety Quilt Member Peering Locations

11. confidential and propriety Quilt Peering Policies N=16 7 organizations reported having an established peering policy 56% respondents use a route registry Of those that use a registry, 78% use RadB The other registry used is Level3 2 respondents reported they are passing traffic of non-customers

12. confidential and propriety CAIDA Report on R&E Rankings for Inferred Relationships based BGP Feeds OrganizationRankingAS#Degree CalREN DC 41 2152 125 Abilene501153776 National Center for Science Information Systems 56290762 AARNet61757540 CalREN HPR63215338 GEANT672096542 DREN7466833 PNWGP8510125 MREN89223356 TransPAC982238834 APAN99766025 OrganizationRankingAS#Degree NoX1021057825 Merit10523721 MIT11335 Academic Services Network 118926429 China Education and Research Network Center 132453815 UCAR/FRGP1381404116 SoX1471049022 Indiana GigaPoP1641978210 3ROX/PSC173505016 Education Networks of America 1811168663