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An interesting promo video on Internet peering and why it is important in context of Africa by Internet Society.
An interesting promo video on Internet peering and why it is important in context of Africa by Internet Society.
Quick traceroute between Reliance and Neotel (South African subsidiary of Tata Communications)
Using Reliance Mumbai node:
You requested a Traceroute from Mumbai (62.216.135.130) to neotel.co.za (41.168.1.110)
1 ge-0-2-0.0.pjr02.mmb004.flagtel.com (85.95.25.70) 80.252 ms 79.822 ms 79.737 ms
MPLS Label=351552 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
2 so-1-3-0.0.pjr02.hkg005.flagtel.com (85.95.25.118) 79.688 ms 79.717 ms 79.779 ms
MPLS Label=301328 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
3 so-5-0-0.0.cjr04.hkg003.flagtel.com (85.95.25.214) 79.790 ms 81.271 ms 84.868 ms
MPLS Label=300272 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
4 xe-1-2-0.0.cji01.hkg003.flagtel.com (62.216.128.66) 79.504 ms 79.587 ms 79.452 ms
5 62.216.145.194 (62.216.145.194) 85.660 ms 79.769 ms *
6 if-2-0-0-1123.core3.HK2-HongKong.as6453.net (216.6.95.137) [AS 6453] 79.930 ms 79.884 ms 79.775 ms
7 180.87.15.81 (180.87.15.81) [AS 6453] 295.413 ms 295.675 ms 295.695 ms
MPLS Label=300800 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
8 if-5-2.tcore2.CXR-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.15.70) [AS 6453] 296.944 ms if-2-2.tcore1.SVW-Singapore.as6453.net (180.87.12.1) [AS 6453] 311.951 ms 311.784 ms
MPLS Label=299968 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
9 if-3-3.tcore1.CXR-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.36.5) [AS 6453] 311.636 ms if-5-2.tcore1.CXR-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.12.54) [AS 6453] 312.689 ms 312.041 ms
MPLS Label=300688 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
10 if-4-0-0.core1.CFO-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.36.18) [AS 6453] 144.922 ms if-15-1-0.core1.CFO-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.36.14) [AS 6453] 145.223 ms if-4-0-0.core1.CFO-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.36.18) [AS 6453] 144.627 ms
MPLS Label=1578 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
11 116.0.86.1 (116.0.86.1) [AS 6453] 155.796 ms 155.857 ms 154.918 ms
MPLS Label=3107 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
12 116.0.86.30 (116.0.86.30) [AS 6453] 341.019 ms 312.304 ms 322.348 ms
MPLS Label=306816 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
13 if-2-2.tcore1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net (216.6.55.85) [AS 6453] 312.133 ms 311.860 ms 311.718 ms
14 216.6.55.38 (216.6.55.38) [AS 6453] 324.450 ms 295.062 ms 296.033 ms
15 41.160.0.243 (41.160.0.243) [AS 36937] 312.371 ms 313.074 ms 311.998 ms
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So it’s like Mumbai-India-Reliance | Hong Kong-Reliance | Hong Kong - Tata | Chennai -India-Tata | Somewhere in middle-Europe | Johannesburg - Tata