[lacnog] Peering in Brazil

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Hi Tomas, unless the so-called "Norma 04" is abolished (and some
business interests are lobbying hard to abolish it), Anatel has no say
whatsoever on this. Rubens explains in detail the other issues which are
relevant. Regarding one point mentioned by Rubens: there are indeed many
excellent professionals, but most are well employed...

--c.a.

On 05/03/2012 08:46 AM, Tomas Lynch wrote:
> How much traffic are we talking about? If you want to peer in Latam
> you need to colo a router there and there was an extensive explanation
> on fiber providers and their services. But that will depend on the
> traffic you want to exchange, if it's less than 100Mbps, I would
> suggest to connect to NOTA and peer there with several Latam ISPs.
> AFAIK peering in Brazil is not an easy stuff due to the requirements
> by ANATEL, I couldn't find those requirements in english, maybe
> somebody from ANATEL or cgi.br can share the link.
> 
> Tomas Lynch
> 
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Roberto Alcântara
> <roberto en eletronica.org> wrote:
>> James,
>>
>> I have no doubt about the location: your best choice is Sao Paulo.  They
>> have at least 10x more traffic than any other in Brazil.
>>
>> I think you should look Telefonica and Level3 Lan2Lan services.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>  - Roberto
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Humberto Galiza <humbertogaliza en gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi James,
>>>
>>> I think that the best locations here in Brazil to do peering are: Rio
>>> Grande do Sul  (PTT-RS - http://rs.ptt.br), Paraná (PTT-PR -
>>> http://pr.ptt.br) and Salvador (PTT-BA - http://ba.ptt.br).
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2012/5/3 James Bensley <jwbensley en gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for any guidance and advice people have regarding first
>>>> time peerings in South America. Currently I am doing some work with a
>>>> content provider in North America and I want to get them better
>>>> routers into South America, to South American ISPs. I am looking to
>>>> get them an interconnect from their NA location to SA, into a PTT IX
>>>> location in Sao Paulo (they seem to be up there for top IXs in SA, or
>>>> am I mistaken?).
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to the PTT IXs so does anyone have any recommendations about
>>>> any aspect here, support horror stories, reason to prefer one location
>>>> for peering over another etc? I see Level3 are in the PTT Sao Paulo
>>>> location, and we have access to Level 3 already. Is there someone else
>>>> I should be looking at who is especially good at private routes down
>>>> to SA, enough to digress from Level 3, or are Level 3 a good choice
>>>> here? Again, any past experiences are welcome, and recommendations for
>>>> a different IX or provider any why.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> James.
>>
>>
>>
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