Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: July 2009
Product Code: R464-1427Description Carriers use IP to carry increasing volumes of traffic, necessitating the efficient exchange of IP traffic between ISPs. The largest ISPs are becoming more restrictive over whom they will peer with, and smaller ones are becoming more open.
Table of Contents - Executive summary
- In a nutshell
- Ovum view
- Key messages
- Evolution in IP peering, not revolution
- The importance of mutual business benefits
- Traffic volumes and network scale
- Personal relationships
- Informality and flexibility
- Aversion to regulation and governmental intervention
- Research methodology
- Definitions used
- ISP peering agreements
- IP peering criteria
- Network scale
- Traffic
- Relationships
- Technical issues
- Security
- Operations
- Time
- Disputes
- Quality
- Financial stability
- The importance of the business benefits of peering
- Formality of peering agreements
- Threats and opportunities for peering
- Overview
- Regulation
- Governmental requirements
- Net neutrality
- Industry consolidation
- Peer-to-peer traffic
- Conflicting business models
- Voice peering - a whole new level of complexity
- The rise and rise of VoIP
- ISPs are feeling their way
- Variations in attitudes to peering
- Differences in peering policies
- De-peering
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Importance of criteria when establishing bilateral peering agreements
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