[132580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: experience with equinix exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Nov 29 14:55:18 2010
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <20101129194453.GX38726@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:54:19 -0800
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Ryan Finnesey <ryan.finnesey@HarrierInvestments.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Nov 29, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 04:09:55PM -0600, Aaron Wendel wrote:
>> According to pch they don't run most of them. I would say they run=20=
>> very few compared to how many there actually are.
>=20
> Uhh... Reality check, with the S&D acquisition Equinix controls the =
VAST=20
> majority of the IX traffic in the US. The only other IX's doing =
anything=20
> even approaching interesting traffic are NOTA (in Miami), NYIIX (in =
New=20
> York), SIX (in Seattle), and the former AtlantaIX (now Telx TIE) in=20
> Atlanta. All are regional players, with very incomplete coverage of =
the=20
> important regions in the US, so if you're peering in the US you're=20
> almost guaranteed to be dealing with Equinix.=20
I might not state things quite as strongly as RAS, but yes, in essence, =
that's how things stand. There's a very long tail to the IXP curve, but =
nearly all of the traffic volume in North America is going through =
Equinix-operated facilities, at this point. RAS has mentioned the main =
other ones, and I'd probably only add Toronto and CoreSite to the list.
-Bill
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