Peering with content networks in India
One of frequent email and contact form message I get my blog is about available content networks in India and where one can peer. There are certain content networks in India and of course most of the content networks have open peering policy and are usually happy with direct inter-connection (we call as “peering“) with the ISP networks (often referred to as “eyeball networks”). Some of these networks have a backbone which connects back to their key datacenter locations on their own circuits via Singapore/Europe, some other have simply placed their caching server where cache fill happens over IP transit.
Based on publically known information across community and of course peeringdb, following content players are available in India and known to be open for peering:
A quick list of these with datacenter names and locations as taken from Peeringdb record of these networks.
| Organisation | ASN | City | Datacenter | Location |
| Amazon | 16509 | Mumbai | GPX Mumbai | Unit A-001, Boomerang Chandivali Farm Road, Near Chandivali Studio, Andheri East Mumbai, Mumbai, 400 051 |
| Amazon | 16509 | Noida | Sify Greenfort – Noida | B7, Block A, Sector 132, Noida Expressway, Noida , UP 201304 |
| Amazon | 16509 | Mumbai | Tata Mumbai IDC | LVSB, Opposite Kirti College 6th floor, Prabahdevi Mumbai, MH, 400 028 |
| 15169 | Chennai | Bharti Airtel Santhome | Bharti Towers, 101 Santhome High Road, Chennai, 600 028 | |
| 15169 | Mumbai | GPX Mumbai | Unit A-001, Boomerang Chandivali Farm Road, Near Chandivali Studio, Andheri East Mumbai, Mumbai, 400 051 | |
| 15169 | Noida | Sify Greenfort – Noida | B7, Block A, Sector 132, Noida Expressway, Noida , UP 201304 | |
| 15169 | Chennai | TATA Communications Ltd | 14th floor, 2nd block 4, Swami Sivanand Salai, Chennai, TN 600 002 |
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| 15169 | Delhi | Tata Delhi | VSB, Bangla Sahib Road, New Delhi 110001 | |
| 15169 | Mumbai | Tata Mumbai IDC | LVSB, Opposite Kirti College 6th floor, Prabhadevi Mumbai, MH, 400 028 |
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| Limelight | 55439 / 22822 | Chennai | Bharti Airtel Santhome | Bharti Towers, 101 Santhome High Road, Chennai, 600 028 |
| Limelight | 55439 / 22822 | Mumbai | Netmagic Vikhroli | Mehra Industrial Estate LBS Marg, Vikhroli Mumbai, 400 079 |
| Microsoft | 8075 | Mumbai | Bharti Airtel Mumbai | Plot No, TPS-2, 14/3, 2nd floor Dattatray Road, Linking Road Extension Mumbai, 400054 |
| Microsoft | 8075 | Chennai | Bharti Airtel Santhome | Bharti Towers, 101 Santhome High Road, Chennai, 600 028 |
| Microsoft | 8075 | Chennai | TATA Communications Ltd | 14th floor, 2nd block 4, Swami Sivanand Salai, Chennai, TN 600 002 |
| Microsoft | 8075 | Delhi | Tata Communications Ltd – GK1 | Greater Kailash-1 New Delhi, 110048 |
| Microsoft | 8075 | Mumbai | Tata Mumbai IDC | LVSB, Opposite Kirti College 6th floor, Prabhadevi Mumbai, MH, 400 028 |
Besides these Google also has an option of GGC, Akamai has an option of Akamai Caching server, Facebook has the option for caching server which is hosted inside ISP’s network and Netflix has an option for OCAs. Besides these networks there are known nodes of Verizon’s Edgecast in Delhi, Mumbai & Chennai (as per this map), Cloudflare has nodes in Delhi, Mumbai & Chennai (as per this map), PCH & K-root server have a node with Web Werks available on MCH peering fabric and Dyn has a node in Mumbai (as per this map).
Go ahead and peer as after all it all starts with a handshake. 🙂
Amazon is lame!
They doesnt even reply to any emails which are sent to peering@amazon.com
Last they replied once, and agreed for PNI, after that, even after 100 emails, there is no reply.
Dear Soumendra Jena,
Are you using an Business Email? and Peering@amazon.com there are Thousands of mails daily.
If you are Planning to Connect Your Jeetpeer with Amazon,you can meet with Amazon Team at There office and Call at AMAZON EC2 +1-206-266-4064
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We at Extreme Peering are helping the ISPs in India to reach and peer with content providers. You can take a look at our Internet Exchange point started few months back – http://extreme-ix.org
Plamen – Do you run IXP manager? If yes, can you provide us with JSON feed and we can keep your peers updated here based on live JSON feed – http://bgp.he.net/exchange/Extreme%20IX
And btw we are also trying to reach Amazon, but without success till now.
We have tried more than a 1000 times but no success
Hi friends
I am Sushil responsible for Amazon Peering please find the below my contact details
Kulksush@amazon.com / +919930895155
Anurag,
we are deploying IXP manager. Will get back to you once ready with the export.
Btw, we got in touch with Sushil (Amazon) some time back and are expecting to get Amazon in Extreme IX soon.
Good to hear that. Thanks for update!
Extreme IX in mumbai is not that great. My isp is Global Infocom and I m just getting good speed in Google( but when you have to download additional file from game, speed gets slow) and also getting good speed in Hotstar( but not on whole Akamai). I dont know is it specific to me or everyone!! May be they’ll improve but as of now things are just ok
Hi,
we are looking for google peering with other content from TCL Bangla Saheb Delhi to Rudrapur, please share contact details so that we can discuss on requirement.
Thanks
Shankaran Rana
8126363636
Hi Shankaran
You can reach out to Google directly via their official contact page here:https://peering.google.com/#/options/peering
I hope it works out for you. Good luck and feel free to contact back if you find any issues in reaching them out.
We wants to reduce ILL cost and already we have extreme peering so please suggest best peering provider in Mumbai.
Please reply asap
Hi Ravi
Extreme IX is a good exchange and has a large number of content players. I doubt you will be able to reduce ILL cost by peering at any other IX. However you can consider following:
1. Ensure you setup bilateral BGP sessions with major content networks over the IX instead of learning their routes via route servers. Many content networks do not announce all routes on route servers.
2. Ensure you have a high localpref towards the IX routes i.e routes learnt from the IX.
3. Ensure you announce less specific on transit and more specific route at IX. So if you have a /22. Announce /22 on transit and two /23s on the IX. That will ensure max traffic comes from the IX peering.
Besides all above you can consider peering at other IX’es for better redundancy (not necessarily for traffic). I personally support BharatIX which has a network PoP in GPX. It’s fully automated IX and does a great job at filtering routes based on IRR and RPKI. Thus you can expect very clean feed of the routes from the route servers and very low chances of route hijacks.
You can check my latest blog post covering this in little detail: https://anuragbhatia.com/2020/02/networking/isp-column/basic-traffic-engineering-for-maximising-peering-traffic/
Any one pls tell me if we have a bilateral peer with any content provider on IX accoding to that content Provider peering db information that they announced 5000 prefix and we only get 700 prefix is any rule of limited prefix annouce beacuse traffic of only these prefix we receved from that content provide expect all traffice we receved from ILL
PeeringDB only tells max prefixes and not exact number of prefix.
Many networks set automated peering sessions using PeeringDB data and rely on that to set max prefix limit on the session.