[182583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DE-CIX vs Equinix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Fri Jul 24 03:24:52 2015
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:37:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m27fpstcom.wl%randy@psg.com>
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Agreed. It costs more to transport an IX to another location than the IX makes off of the port they sold you.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
To: "Charles Gucker" <cgucker@onesc.net>
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:49:29 AM
Subject: Re: DE-CIX vs Equinix
> As DE-CIX learned, NYC is a very difficult market to get connectivity
> and to build an exchange in. As such their operating costs are a lot
> higher than in other markets
circuits in the states are more painful than northern europe, japan,
etc. a bunch of smaller isps in the states were annoyed at equinix's
domination of the east coast markets so encouraged some european
community exchanges to colonize. what they did not do was offer to
subsidize any surprizes in expense, gaining a market foothold, etc.
this is sometimes known as "let's you and him fight."
randy
