Transit Provider

By Joe Gardiner Tuesday, 13th April 2010

A transit provider will sell upstream access to the internet to a customer. Once the customer has bought this access, they have access to the transit providers network routes which results in the customer gaining access to the entire internet network as described by the upstream ISP. Transit providers usually charge in a metered manner, and charge by the Mbps of bandwidth. Just paying for transit can be extremely expensive unless the customer initiates peering as well. Without peering all transfer will be going through the transit provider, using peering in conjunction enables some traffic to be sent directly from a peering partner, avoiding the transit provider and the metered billing.

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