Easy and affordable maintenance and expansion
- PREDICTABILITY OF EXPENSES – the prices of BIX.BG are public, so the cost can easily be calculated and planned into the budget. With the private peering every case is quite different, which makes it harder to predict: if the traffic expands with 50% for example, how many and which exactly physical connections should be upgraded and what would be the real price.
- THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SEARCH FOR NEW PEERING PARTNERS SWITCHES FROM THE MEMBER TO BIX.BG– the effect of every new member attracted by BIX.BG is equivalent to as if the rest of the members set up direct connection to him, however they have not invested any time or money.
- BIX.BG ALLOWS EASY AND FAST CONNECTING of NEW or disconnecting the available peering sessions without the need to establish/cancel a separate physical connection for every peer. Peering is a software configuration between two members and the session will run right away. With the help of Route Servers one can use only two BGP sessions to exchange traffic with all other parties involved.
- One can easily create new test peering sessions – if two members have free capacity, they can start such a connection without ANY ADDITIONAL EXPENSES and administrative work. This would prevent irrelevant private peering without clear traffic and financial impact.
- Usually the peering coordinators work without budget and have no rights to make decisions about additional expenses for the new peering connections. When the port BIX.BG is available, they can deliver free set up of a new peering sessions without facing the difficulties needs of additional expenses for lines, ports, optical modules, etc.
