[164758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTT/Inteliquent/nLayer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Wed Jul 31 13:38:20 2013
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:38:08 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAE_ug14V8F_Jcm_MD75kPtk-V2PgR2KQ3Y1o4gzv5iE8isckqw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:28:50AM -0400, Tim Durack wrote:
> Any experience/comments on the GTT Global eXpress service? Looks
> interesting but odd. Why would I use a virtual IXP? Who participates?
>
> Comments on-list or off-list are fine.
This was an old PacketExchange service, essentially just a single large
VPLS-based global layer 2 virtual IXP service, which combined long-haul
transport and multi-party interconnection. It's somewhat interesting as
a concept (since I'm not aware of anyone else offering anything
similar), but IMHO not the most practical thing in the world, which is
why it hasn't really been promoted as a new product in many years. If
you've heard differently, please contact me off-list. :)
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