Historically, peering coordination relied heavily on email exchanges, consuming significant time and effort from individuals on both ends of the peering relationship. Recognizing the inefficiencies of this process, industry leaders, including FullCtl, sought to automate it. The first step involved creating automated peering portals, allowing users to request peering through web forms. While a step in the right direction, this method still required human intervention.
FullCtl, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, Google, and Meta took the initiative to address the limitations of existing peering automation. The result was the AutoPeer API, a standard API designed to manage machine-to-machine peering requests. This initiative aims not only to reduce the human time spent configuring peering but also to increase the amount of peering, reducing network latency, and ultimately improving the efficiency of global networks.
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