We’re pleased to announce we’re now providing an L-Root instance in Reno, NV to our customers and peers, including TahoeIX peers.
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Roller Network is one of the first participants of the Tahoe Internet Exchange, or TahoeIX. We announce our routes and our customer’s routes to the exchange, and accept all routes from the exchange. This morning TahoeIX welcomed Packet Clearing House to the peering fabric. While we’re still working turning up some direct peering sessions with PCH, their peering with the TahoeIX IPv4 route server is already up. We’ll receive routes directly and through the common route server.
Why peering? Here’s a perfect example of an improvement.
Traffic to a peered DNS root now looks like this:
$ mtr e.root-servers.net -4 -c 2 -r HOST: whiskers Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net 0.0% 2 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.1 2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net 0.0% 2 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.1 3.|-- e.root-servers.net 0.0% 2 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.9 0.1
While traffic to a DNS root without peering takes the long, scenic route:
$ mtr b.root-servers.net -4 -c 2 -r HOST: whiskers Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net 0.0% 2 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.1 2.|-- core1-gi3-3.rollernet.net 0.0% 2 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.0 3.|-- border0-gi0-1.rollernet.n 0.0% 2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 0.0 4.|-- 12.116.94.237 0.0% 2 15.1 31.5 15.1 47.9 23.2 5.|-- 12.122.160.30 0.0% 2 12.4 12.2 12.0 12.4 0.3 6.|-- cr2.sffca.ip.att.net 0.0% 2 11.7 12.6 11.7 13.4 1.1 7.|-- 12.122.149.137 0.0% 2 13.7 13.7 13.6 13.7 0.1 8.|-- 192.205.37.58 0.0% 2 12.0 12.1 12.0 12.3 0.3 9.|-- ae-9.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.g 0.0% 2 12.2 11.9 11.6 12.2 0.4 10.|-- ae-7.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.g 0.0% 2 23.2 23.4 23.2 23.6 0.3 11.|-- ae-2.r05.lsanca03.us.bb.g 0.0% 2 24.4 23.7 23.0 24.4 1.0 12.|-- ntt-los-nettos-usc.ln.net 0.0% 2 23.9 23.6 23.3 23.9 0.4 13.|-- isi-vlan2009.ln.net 0.0% 2 24.0 23.9 23.8 24.0 0.1 14.|-- b.root-servers.net 0.0% 2 24.4 25.7 24.4 27.0 1.9
The improvement should be quite obvious.
UPDATE: More prefixes from Afilias were added this morning.
$ mtr -c 1 -r b2.org.afilias-nst.org -6 HOST: whiskers Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- 2607:fe70:0:beef::1 0.0% 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net 0.0% 1 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.0 3.|-- b2.org.afilias-nst.org 0.0% 1 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.0 $ mtr -c 1 -r b2.org.afilias-nst.org -4 HOST: whiskers Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net 0.0% 1 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.0 2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net 0.0% 1 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.0 3.|-- b2.org.afilias-nst.org 0.0% 1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.0
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WiMAX Broadband Discontinued
We’re officially discontinuing WiMAX broadband services in 2015.
This does not affect any customers on standard broadband or microwave services; those on WiMAX are explicitly noted as such in the account control center and on their invoices. The WiMAX customers were always a special case for locations where we couldn’t reach with our standard service. Affected customers will be contacted directly as we work through the list to determine if they can be converted to standard service since coverage has increased since the WiMAX customers were originally installed.
Since we are completely discontinuing WiMAX services we’ve also taken steps to remove it from our website and from the internet access service level agreement. We will not be grandfathering or retaining any WiMAX-only accounts.
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Akamai is Coming to Reno
This isn’t entirely Roller Network related, but we felt compelled to mention that Akamai (AS20940) will be peering with Northern Nevada’s first (and currently only) internet exchange: TahoeIX. It’s sort of related to Rollernet since we’re also peering and offering free GigE cross connects into the TahoeIX peering fabric to all colocation customers. This is an exciting time for us here in Reno, NV.
For more on the exchange visit www.tahoeix.org