[190257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Job Witteman)
Mon Jun 20 15:57:25 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Job Witteman <job.witteman@ams-ix.net>
In-Reply-To: <00d957e5-5310-619d-49b9-221fbf5916a8@nipper.de>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 14:41:24 +0200
To: =?utf-8?Q?Fredrik_Korsb=C3=A4ck?= <hugge@nordu.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Op 17 jun. 2016, om 21:58 heeft Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de> het =
volgende geschreven:
>=20
> On 17.06.2016 10:44, Fredrik Korsb=C3=A4ck wrote:
>=20
>> Last year i added 0 new IXPs, upgraded 0 IXPs, but i added over 30
>> new PNI's.
>>=20
>> If IXPs wants more of those bits, adjusting prices much more
>> aggresively is what can bring this back to their market, instead of
>> the datacenter-crossconnect market.
>>=20
>=20
> Did you ever think about *who* brought in all the networks you are =
able
> to peer with?
And did you ever think *how* successful IXP's brought in these huge =
amount of peers for you?
Let me give you a hint: social engineering, lots of beer, one-on-one =
options during peering forums around the globe where WE travel far =
beyond our national borders to make life easy for our prospect customers =
because, yes, more peers for the same or, even better, lower price is =
what all of our peers want...
>=20
> Seems to be really easy to bash IXPs. Seems to really hard to value =
what
> IXPs have done for the interconnection industry.
+ 1
> Arnold
> --=20
> Arnold Nipper
> email: arnold@nipper.de phone: +49 6224 5593407 2
> mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 5593407 9
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