[106768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Coop Peering Fabric??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue Aug 12 16:39:38 2008
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:26:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Paul Wall <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <620fd17c0808120037g2afc8d78ma93fc95a4d355974@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul Wall wrote:
> If it were as easy as you make it sound, I can assure you people would
> be doing it.
Yup, they are. There are a bit over three hundred IXPs in the world,
about eighty of them in the U.S., and the vast majority of them were built
by ISPs solving problems for themselves, as Deepak is suggesting.
-Bill