[176368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ammar Zuberi)
Wed Nov 26 07:47:44 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Ammar Zuberi <ammar@fastreturn.net>
In-Reply-To: <201411261438.24202.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:42:39 +0400
To: mark.tinka@seacom.mu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hi,
I=E2=80=99m pretty sure IX Reach can take you into an Equinix exchange, =
so it is probably possible that they allow this kind of stuff to happen.
Ammar.
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> On Nov 26, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 10:34:14 PM Eric Van Tol=20
> wrote:
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>> It's been a while since I've checked the Equinix Customer
>> Agreement and Policies documents, but I know at one time
>> they required a physical presence in the in the IDC for
>> an Exchange cross-connect. This may have changed in the
>> past several years.
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> Several exchange points now support some kind of resale=20
> model, where peering members are transported into the=20
> exchange point via network, without the need for physical=20
> presence at the exchange point location.
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> I'm not sure whether Equinix's exchange points do this.
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> Mark.
