[106742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Coop Peering Fabric??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Aug 11 23:47:31 2008
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:45:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
In-Reply-To: <48A10065.4060900@ai.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Deepak Jain wrote:
> A "coop", best-effort switch fabric colo'd at a few sites would allow
> participants to peer off traffic at a price of the order of a single
> cross-connect (~$500/month per 10G port is possible, maybe less),
$0/month per 10G port is common enough.
https://www.seattleix.net/faq.htm
Why pay someone else to let you use an Ethernet switch? Presumably if
you can configure BGP, plugging into an Ethernet switch is well within
your core competency.
-Bill
