[132585] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: experience with equinix exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Mon Nov 29 16:28:21 2010
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:26:50 -0600
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <B4CA05BD-2589-462F-88E3-01B8411AB5CE@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 04:03:21PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> The only thing I would change is that Any2 has at least one exchange
> with traffic (Los Angeles) and is distributed throughout the country.
>
> But the vast majority of traffic exchange over IXes in the US is over
> Equinix/PAIX switches. And a very large amount of traffic over
> private interconnects is also done in their buildings.
Woops, yes I forgot Any2 (how'd that happen? :P). Like Telx they've
recently deployed a bunch of new exchanges "all over", but there is
really only the one that does any traffic. :)
For comparison purposes:
http://www.seattleix.net/agg.htm
http://www.nyiix.net/index.php?core=statistics.php
http://tie.telx.com/usage.pl
http://www.coresite.com/peering-any2charts.php
I don't think the combined Equinix / S&D numbers are published publicly
anywhere, but I'm sure it's north of a terabit. :)
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