[sdnog] Content Providers Cost when they peer at IXP

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 27 Nov 2019, at 19:29, Sara Alamin wrote:

> Good evening everyone!

hi,


> I want to ask about The Content Providers Cost when they peer at IXP.
> who pay for the transit cost ? the bandwidth cost for these Content 
> provider to fill/update their caches? who provide a management IPs for 
> them to access their machines?
> is this cost shared between all IXP peers ?
> or should someone donate to provide it?
> or the Content Providers themselves pay for it ?


when _any_ network connects to the IX, it is responsible for 
provisioning its own costs, so that it can peer.
why do you want to treat a cdn any differently?  these are some of the 
richest companies in the world .. do they need you to sponsor them?

—n.