[106770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Coop Peering Fabric??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Aug 12 17:08:24 2008
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:06:50 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Paul Wall <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <620fd17c0808121348w4529bb0m9a7704dbdf095827@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
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Paul Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
>> Tons of others exist, in big and little markets. There's one in 365 Main
>> SF, there's KleyReX in the same building as DE-CIX, Big APE in 111 8th, NYCx
>> there too, ChicagoIX just opened, etc., etc.
>
> Excellent point on Europe.
>
> Not so much in the United States. Do SFMIX, BIG APE, NYCX, etc 1)
> have more than a half dozen participants 2) exchange any traffic other
> than BGP keep-alives and ARP? :) I think not. When you look at why
> not, it's usually always predatory practices on the part of various
> collo and IX operators preventing widespread adoptation. If CHIX were
> doing real traffic, do you think Equinix would allow them to remain
> accessible from their suites, and in a cost-effective manner?
>
>> Trust me, it _is_ being done.
>
> It's being done, just not on a large scale in the United States
> outside of the SIX.
Is there a more appropriate place for interested parties to discuss the
possible creation of such a beast in the WDC area? I know we have about
a lot of optical capacity we could help contribute to a stake in the
ground between Equinix/Ash and a facility less than 1ms away if there is
interest.
Deepak
