Section IV - The Tricks of the Trade: The Peering Playbooks

Excerpts from The Internet Peering Playbook: Connecting to the Core of the Internet

In this last section we present the tactics used by some of the smartest peering coordinators in the world. They shared some tactics that they have used to obtain peering where they otherwise would not have been able to. We briefly present the foundation of the IXP, the colocation facility, and then finish by sharing some of the tricks of the trade that the most successful IXPs in the world have used to build, grow, maintain, and defend its "critical mass”.

This section contains the following chapters:

Chapter 11 – The ISP Peering Playbook

Chapter 12 – Taxonomy of Data Center Operations

Chapter 13 – The IXP Playbook