[107835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Sep 15 11:51:45 2008
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080915094014.GA15486@reptiles.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:39:28 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 15 Sep 2008, at 05:40, Jim Mercer wrote:
> there is an exchange http://emix.ae, however, when i last interacted
> with
> them several years ago, it was a relatively closed club.
Unless things have changed recently, it's more of a monopoly transit
provider than an exchange point. It's a service of Emirates Telecom/
Etisalat, AS8966; it's who people are obliged to buy transit from,
there being no alternative for licensed ISPs. They do like to use the
word "exchange" though, which can give the wrong impression.
If it seems like a closed club, perhaps that's more of an ISP
licensing issue in UAE than anything else.
Joe
