BGP Routing in a Peering

Environment

Philippine Cable and Telecommunications Association (PCTA)

December 10, 2020

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Bayani Benjamin R. Lara

Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI)

Department of Science and Technology (DOST)

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 Locally sourced content
should be delivered to a local
destination without crossing
our national borders

- Bill Woodcock, PCH

 Internet Exchanges
• Facilities where networks can interconnect directly with each
other
• The goal is to improve the quality of service; and
• To reduce transmission costs
• Lack of effective internet exchanges causes what we call
“tromboning” of local content
 Philippine Open
Internet eXchange
(PhOpenIX)
 PhOpenIX

• Started in 2007
• Operated by DOST-ASTI
• 100Mb, 1Gb and 10Gb ports available
• Very limited 100Gb ports available
 PhOpenIX

• How to join? -> email bani@asti.dost.gov.ph

• Reconfigure your IP network to do BGP
• Provision a network link from your BGP-
speaking border router, going to the nearest
IX switch
 Thank you

Amante Alvaran Paul Wilson Bill Woodcock Gaurab Raj Upadhaya Marco van den Berg
APNIC APNIC PCH PCH IRRI

Philip Smith Kurt Lindqvist Bill Manning Ceejay Dideles Che-Hoo Cheng
Cisco Netnod USC ISI ASTI-DOST HKIX/APNIC
Switch upgrades
Thank you

Raj Jane Noelle

 Philippine Open
Internet eXchange

PhOpenIX
April 4, 2014

Bani Lara

Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI)

Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
Aggregate (2014)
 PCTA Members
doing BGP
• CableLink
• Destiny
• SkyCable
• DCTV
• others (?)
 Philippine Open
Internet eXchange
(www.phopenix.net)
Updates
April 3, 2017
PCTA
Iloilo convention Center

Bani Lara

Advanced Science and Technology Institute

Are PCTA members
interested?
Current PhOpenIX aggregate
traffic as of March 21, 2017
Transit

versus

Peering
Transit
Transit
Peering
 Peering
• Voluntary interconnection
• Purpose is to exchange traffic
between the users of each network
• Settlement-free
• Neither party pays the other in the
exchange of "metered" bits and
bytes
 Benefits of peering
• If networks agree to cooperate with each other, and develop a
healthy internet exchange, then the benefit would be lower costs
of operation by:
• attracting content providers (foreign and local) to set up shop
locally
• attract connectivity providers to haul their bandwidth to the
country; and
Content providers
PCTA Members benefitting from PhOpenIX
 Tromboning

• Tromboning is a result of a unilateral action

wherein each network independently
concludes that it is more cost-effective to
use its international connections for
domestic traffic exchange than to connect to
every other ISP separately
 Tromboning

• However, the use of international capacity

for domestic traffic is expensive, and this
tromboning can be eliminated, with the
corresponding cost savings, if networks
adopt a “cooperative” approach to create a
local internet exchange point where
domestic traffic can be exchanged
 Tromboning

• Key to eliminating tromboning is in the

cooperative sharing of infrastructure
 BGP
• Border Gateway Protocol
• The internet is a network of networks, and
BGP is the protocol used to exchange bits
and bytes between networks
• You need an AS number
• Minimum /24 IPv4 block and/or a /64 IPv6
block
 Border Gateway Protocol

• How do I get an ASN and an IPv4/IPv6 address

block?

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How BGP works
 Prepending
(influence INBOUND traffic)
 Localpref
(influence OUTBOUND traffic)
 An internet exchange is
simply a tool. The impact
that it creates depends
on how its peers use the
available resources
within it.
 Bani Lara
banilara@gmail.com

http://www.pregi.net/pcta2020.pdf