> five networks: Meta, Akamai, Google, Netflix, Amazon (I don’t know there is a decent name for these but i’ve been calling them the The “Magna” networks)
At a time when Meta was Facebook, there were FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and FAANG (with Apple), but it seems to be more used in a finance context.
For inbound traffic, they're completely fine. This is only looking at the route servers. You can almost certainly receive 50/50 traffic ratios if you do bilateral peering. This post only covers the " automatic peering " services that IXs offer
At a time when Meta was Facebook, there were FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and FAANG (with Apple), but it seems to be more used in a finance context.
1. 100 IXes alone would get 56% IPv4 and 61% IPv6 prefixes, but ~14% reachability
2. little uniqueness between exchanges: not many new prefixes after the top 5
3. for outbound-heavy networks IXes are great, but to attract traffic they are not
For inbound traffic, they're completely fine. This is only looking at the route servers. You can almost certainly receive 50/50 traffic ratios if you do bilateral peering. This post only covers the " automatic peering " services that IXs offer