[123219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alaska IXP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr. James W. Laferriere)
Wed Mar 3 22:39:23 2010
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:38:45 -0900 (AKST)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <45442790-3592-4CE7-8EC9-0B364A729993@pch.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hello All ,
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>> Are there any common locations in Alaska where multiple local ISPs exchange traffic, either transit or peering? Or is Seattle the closest exchange point for Alaska ISPs?
>
> PCH doesn't know of any. If any exist, we'd very much like to hear about it. Vancouver BC may technically be closer than Seattle, but that's not a significant answer.
>
> -Bill
Having done a little poking around on this subject for the last 1.5
Years . I have not seen a single instance of routing NOT going to Seattle from
either of the Eye's based networks (ACS/GCI) to any other network based in
alaska , Except through private interconnects .
Take with grain of salt , ...
Hth , JimL
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