[195494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sun Aug 13 16:23:29 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 16:23:24 -0400
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On 8/12/17 7:27 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
> Hey there!
>
> ... ok this time I am not going to call it PRIX ;)
I thought that was a perfectly good name.
> [...] The jsland historically had one of the slowest
> broadband/internet services which seemed to have improved in recent years
> however as of 2017 there still is not an IX in Puerto rico.
>
What happened to Internet Exchange of Puerto Rico (ix.pr)?
Run by AS36810?
> We , 3-4 internet engineers (on island and remote) , want to look into
> relaunch of this IX and hopefully find a way to keep local traffic
> exchanged at high speeds and low cost. We need expertise, and people who
> want to help any way they can.
>
https://www.pch.net/
> We are trying to make this IX a not-for-profit one and we are looking at
> opeeating models to adapt which has worked incredibly well like Seattle IX.
>
> We are hoping the relaunch to happen sometime in 2018. Thanks in advance
> hope to share more info and traffic data sometime , soon. Watch this space!
>
