I need good connectivity to local eyeball networks there. I’ve explored Cogent, Lumen, and a local clled Telxius and results are all over the map. Is there a provider that’s ‘well peered’ with all the locals? Hoping this formats correctly but here’s the results of ping tests on various looking glasses to prefixes of the various locals.
I need good connectivity to local eyeball networks there. I've explored Cogent, Lumen, and a local clled Telxius and results are all over the map. Is there a provider that's 'well peered' with all the locals? Hoping this formats correctly but here's the results of ping tests on various looking glasses to prefixes of the various locals.
Local Carriers IP Prefix Telxius Lumen Cogent
COLOMBIA TELECOMUNICACIONES S.A. ESP 152.200.0.0/14 22.025 ms 164ms 115 ms
Telmex Colombia S.A. (Claro) 190.144.0.0/14 14.319 ms 63ms 115 ms
Empresas Públicas de Medellín E.S.P. 201.220.30.0/23 94.264 ms 126 ms 102 ms
Movistar Colombia 186.116.14.0/24 38.894 ms 193ms 118 ms
ETB - Colombia 186.154.0.0/16 5.340 ms 130ms 2.21 ms
Columbus Networks Colombia 138.121.12.0/24 60.212 ms 99ms 89.8 ms
Metrotel Colombia 190.1.128.0/19 20.989 ms 148ms 90.5 ms
Any advice?
If your service is critical to RTT and bandwith - you only have to rent a DWDM channels to Bogota and build your own connectivity there.
[not exactly fitting the NA of NANOG, but I’m guessing there is an interest in North-and-South connectivity in general, so will continue the conversation]
You didn’t specify exactly how you’d like to get access to the eyeballs, so I’ll throw our 2 pesos in here: We have deployed a number of recursive resolvers in EdgeUno (AS7195) datacenters in LATAM including Bogotá and have been very pleased with the results reaching local eyeball networks. They have IP transit, co-location, and other offerings so perhaps there is a match there.
We are also deployed in IX locations in LATAM with other sponsorship/partnerships, but there are always edge cases that for whatever political/economic/telcomindedness reasons are better covered by transit arrangements. For the nations in which we are deployed with them, EdgeUno has solved most of those issues for us.
Besides EdgeUno, already mentioned, Tivit bought what used to be Synapsis and before that, Diveo. Could also be an option, either for colocation
or a VM (called “One Cloud” by Tivit).
This would be vanilla IP transit (BGP w\ our ASN and IP space). Our services are delivered to clients over the public internet. I just need decent connectivity to these end users without hopping to Miami to go 2 blocks down the street!
LATAM, and Bogota in general seems like a pretty fragmented market where some providers have good peering with some locals but not all. Edgeuno seems to be a general one size fits all but latency to Claro was somewhat high.