Peering and Interconnection
Easy and efficient edge optimization, delivered.
Discover Peers
- Discover top potential origin and destination peers based on traffic flows, ratios, volume, connectivity mix, paths, and geographic overlay between your network and theirs.
- Evaluate which internet exchanges and data centers to deploy to based on your traffic profile and how much assured traffic you can peer off.
- Find peering targets to optimize network performance, reduce transit costs, and elevate subscriber experience.
PeeringDB integration
- Eliminate complex spreadsheet wrangling and chair swiveling with PeeringDB data integrated right in the Kentik platform.
- Get information about peers and compare your network traffic with any member network at internet exchanges and colocations.
- Use PeeringDB data – contextualized with your network flow data – to discover transit traffic that could be offloaded to peering at IXs and data centers.
Connectivity Costs
- Manage all connectivity costs and monitor monthly spending in any currency.
- Automate flat, tiered, and custom calculations.
- See costs broken down by provider, connectivity type, sites, or markets to track cost per Mbps.
- Share reports with business teams to drive decisions.
Kentik Market Intelligence
- Access Kentik’s unique database to evaluate size, market share, relationships, and rankings of ASes globally and regionally.
- See the providers, peers, and customers for any AS.
- Enable efficient sales prospecting with competitor insights, including single-homed customers.
- Generate dynamic, tailored market alerts.
CDN Analytics
- Determine connectivity mix on- and off-net for each CDN handing traffic over to your network.
- Detect CDN inefficiencies and fix traffic origin misconfigurations that impact performance and costs.
- Benchmark CDNs in detail to improve traffic delivery and enhance service quality.
OTT Service Tracking
- Understand network traffic service origin, contributors, and consumers by content and content providers.
- Uncover drivers behind bandwidth utilization and costs without expensive DPI.
- Identify CDNs, 850+ OTT services, and 650+ OTT providers across more than 40 categories.
“Kentik has the best feature functionality on the market and has substantially reduced our MTTR for customer, peering, and transit-related issues. It’s rare to be able to leverage one product for value in so many different and useful ways across the organization, but with Kentik, we’ve been able to do just that.”
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Peering and Interconnection FAQs
How do ISPs optimize peering and transit to reduce latency and cost?
ISPs use Kentik’s Peering & Interconnection workflows to analyze traffic patterns, AS paths and cost models so they can choose where to peer, which IXes to use and how to balance traffic across transit and peering to reduce latency for subscribers and lower cost per Mbps.
How do I analyze performance differences by AS and region?
Kentik enriches flows with ASN and geo metadata, so you can filter and compare traffic and performance by AS and region and see which providers and geographies deliver better latency, throughput or reliability for your users.
What tools help compare internet paths across different providers?
Kentik correlates flow and BGP data so you can see AS paths, providers, latency and volume for traffic to specific destinations across different ISPs, making it easy to compare Internet paths and choose the best-performing or most cost-effective routes.
What tools can analyze cost per bit delivered across interconnects?
Kentik’s Traffic Costs features calculate cost-per-Mbps for each interconnect by combining utilization and volume data with your pricing, giving you real-time visibility into how much you pay per bit on each transit and peering link.
How do I detect saturation on interconnects before congestion occurs?
Kentik’s flow analytics and utilization dashboards show real-time and historical bandwidth on transit and peering links and highlight top talkers, letting you identify interconnects that are trending toward saturation so you can upgrade or re-balance traffic before congestion and packet loss appear.
How can I right-size transit and IX capacity for peak traffic?
Kentik classifies traffic by CDN and service and lets you compare CDN performance and routing across different interconnect types and providers so you can see how content is handed off, which routes perform best and where CDN routing decisions may be hurting user experience.
How can I monitor and tune CDN origin fetch performance?
Kentik distinguishes subscriber-facing CDN traffic from cache-fill flows and shows how origin fetch traffic enters your network by provider, site and path; that visibility helps you find inefficient origin routes or misconfigurations and tune peering or cache placement to reduce upstream load and latency.