nods but for companies of that size, the tooling exists (and in the open source community) to detect the DDoS attacks and drop only the BGP peers presenting harm, forcing it through the scrubbers.

 

That approach lets you keep better-performing, higher-reliability routes the rest of the time.

 

----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com
From: "Nick Olsen" <nick@141networks.com>
To: "Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net>
Cc: "Brian Knight" <ml@knight-networks.com>, "VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2026 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Re: Internet Exchanges

My "Guess" is that because they are relatively low traffic they pass up IX's to have less points of entry. Makes it easier to put behind cloudflare when a DDoS hits.
 
My endpoints are also in 40160. And I hold two BGP sessions with 40160 via private circuits. They're in a lot of locations too. Likely due to needing local facilities for TDM connectivity. So it's not for a lack of being near IX's.

On 2026-11-05 10:04, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:

Ah, I see that now and one Sinch is the customer of the other Sinch. My Sinch endpoints are in 40160.

I don't understand inconsistent peering approaches even more than the lack of peering.

 

----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com
From: "Brian Knight" <ml@knight-networks.com>
To: "Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net>, "VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Re: Internet Exchanges

Sinch operates ASN 5715 as well

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/18244

 

On 2026-11-04 13:34, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/18236

Sinch is only on three

 

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/8270

Telnyx isn't on any

 

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/1835

Bandwidth is only on four

 

 

 

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Mike Hammett

Fiber Data Internet Exchange

DNA Communications

 

 

From: "Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org>
To: "VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 12:37 PM
Subject: [VoiceOps] Re: Internet Exchanges

Seems common to me, why do you think it's rare?  We have servers in a facility with handoffs to several carriers.  We can pay to peer directly with a cross connect, but stopped doing that and just depend on the "free" switching fabric in the datacenter.
 
 

On Nov 4, 2026 at 10:41:47 AM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps <voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote:

Why is it rare for voice networks to have a meaningfully well peered data network, including Internet exchanges? 

 

----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com
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