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Re: experience with equinix exchange

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Fri Nov 19 03:29:50 2010

To: Justin Horstman <justin.horstman@gorillanation.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:29:38 -0500
In-Reply-To: <8C164D3BAF7C7F41B9B286385037B13111BBC26853@lax-exch-fe-01.gorillanation.local>
	(Justin Horstman's message of "Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:01:45 -0800")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


Paul is pretty clueful; I think he was asking for specifics as to what
the layer 8/9 issues are at Equinix, rather than an explanation of
what layer 8 and 9 means.

"Fly Fast",

-r


Justin Horstman <justin.horstman@gorillanation.com> writes:

> 8 users
> 9 politics and policies
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul WALL [mailto:pauldotwall@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:55 AM
>> To: Mehmet Akcin
>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: experience with equinix exchange
>> 
>> What are the layer 8-9 issues?
>> 
>> Drive Slow,
>> Paul Wall
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Shacolby Jackson wrote:
>> >
>> >> Has anyone had any experience (good or bad) with their exchange at
>> any of
>> >> their major datacenters, especially Great Oaks? We're wondering if
>> people
>> >> really love or hate it.
>> >>
>> >> -shac
>> >
>> >
>> > Equinix does a fair job running 7 layers , however the layer8 and
>> layer9 seem the lacking part
>> > which could have been improved greatly. in Great Oaks / SJC , they
>> seem to be the largest IX
>> >
>> > per
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.peeringdb.com/private/exchange_view.php?id=5&peerParticipan
>> tsPublicsOrder=Sorter_policy&peerParticipantsPublicsDir=DESC
>> >
>> > so being there while you are in that location seems good, and they
>> are reliable.
>> >
>> > mehmet
>> >


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