Re: Peering problem again between Emtel and Orange

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 02:06:14 -0700

Hi Logan,
At 00:55 29-10-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>ISPs peer between themselves to save cost by avoiding taking
>international routes. e.g, if I live in Rose-Hill, and my friend lives
>in Quatres Bornes, it makes little sense for me to take a plane from
>Mauritius, to London, and then take a taxi to go to Quatres Bornes. If a
>route exists between Rose-Hill and Quatres Brones, we should use it. The
>advantage for consumers is that it takes less time. On the internet,
>less time means less latency.

Thank you for the explanation.

>However, as I showed in my blog post, it's taking on average 662ms. The
>same latency that it would take as it goes to Europe and then back to
>Mauritius. A few days ago, I was gettin 67ms from Emtel to Orange and
>vice-versa. Obviously, something happened that caused the latency to
>spike to 662ms.

My guess is that some customers from Emtel are "taking a plane to
Europe" to be able to get to the Mauritius Telecom network. This
affect Emtel customers. It is not possible to do anything unless
people provide facts to show that they are affected.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Thu Oct 29 2015 - 09:06:48 PST