Orcon to peer with Telecom, TelstraClear stays out
Orcon has followed FX Networks in deciding to exchange traffic with Telecom through some of the 29 peering points set up on the latter’s network nationwide.
Orcon has followed FX Networks in deciding to exchange traffic with Telecom through some of the 29 peering points set up on the latter’s network nationwide.
Like a giant gravity-bending star, Google has grown so massive it is starting to have a measurable effect on internet traffic flows, an analysis of the company's activities has found.
Telecom is signalling a restart to interconnection talks ahead of a planned December 2011 launch for IP interconnection charging.
ICT Minister David Cunliffe may yet force internet service providers to restore full peering — to improve broadband efficiency — if more of them don’t move of their own accord.
TelstraClear will not be drawn back into peering quickly, saying it will wait and see how Telecom’s trials of a new peering service go.
Telecom’s wholesale arm has set a date for its proposed new peering service and says it will be run on a “bill and keep” basis, or essentially free of charge.
TVNZ is using ISP Orcon to provide Orcon customers with high-capacity peered access to TVNZondemand programmes online.
A Telecom proposal to set up 29 regional peering points — to keep local internet traffic as close to home as possible — has got the thumbs-up, after being fleshed-out by Telecom’s wholesale division.
Would it make sense for courier packages being sent overnight across Wellington City to travel via Auckland, or to Australia — or even the US and back, before delivery? It makes no more sense for internet data packets.
Voice over IP peering, which can, essentially, cut out the local telco and thus save costs, promises to be one of several hot topics at this year’s VON Europe conference in Stockholm.
TradeMe problems not a result of de-peering, says TelstraClear
'If major telcos say it'll cost to talk to them, we won't talk to them'
TelstraClear is defending its decision to introduce a new pricing regime for ISPs that wish to connect with its network, saying it is only a matter of seeking a commercial return on its investments.
The old internet world of collaboration and the new world of commercial imperatives look set to collide as the peering row between TelstraClear and Auckland-ISP ICONZ continues.
TelstraClear is rejecting suggestions that it ever offered free peering to Auckland-based ISP ICONZ, saying the companies had a commercial agreement that including "traffic exchange."