[163019] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Jun)
Wed May 15 13:36:02 2013
From: "James Jun" <james@towardex.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5193ADDC.2030401@vaxination.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 13:36:47 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Not all ISPs are fortunate enough to be in a town where there is an =
active
exchange with Netflix/Akamai/Google presence.
> For instance, Montr=E9al just recently oopened a peering exchange. =
While
this will eventually allow local ISPs to peer with=20
> the big content providers, until this happens, small ISPs have to get =
that
content via paid transit links.
lolwut? Montreal isn't a small town, just not developed on peering side.
What's the cost of upgrading your IP transit in Montreal or getting a =
10G
wave to Toronto for peering w/ content nowadays? Not very much.
james
