Terminology

• Transit – carrying network traffic across a network, usually for a fee

• Peering – exchanging routing information and traffic

  • your customers and your peers’ customers network information only.
  • not your peers’ peers; not your peers’ providers.

• Peering also has another meaning:

  • BGP neighbour, whether or not transit is provided

• Default – where to send traffic when there is no explicit route in the routing table

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