[33027] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: florida ix(en) facing south
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Barrows)
Thu Dec 21 12:56:23 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:46:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Barrows <jeff@preg.org>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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A facility that has rich connectivity to a lot of
networks (ISPs, Carriers, MANs, etc.) would be highly
useful in that area-- specifically because of the
cable heads. Whether or not it becomes a major
location for high-speed exchange among the six or
seven major North American NSPs is another question.
Recently, legislation put into place that made it
even more interesting [with financial incentives]
to set up an "exchange point" in Miami.
These are the two major efforts:
- NAP of the Americas (NoTA, a group initiative,
led by some regional ISPs/ASPs/etc, and having some
real-estate/developer connections.
- Miami Internet Exchange (FloridaMIX, a Bell South
initiative for a distributed exchange.)
Last time I checked, both of these had essentially the
same objective, with differences in the areas of
architecture and personal interests. Neither of the
two sides seemed to be led by anyone with any real ISP
peering experience at the time.
At one point, Global Crossing issued a press release
stating that they were going to build a Miami NAP as
well, though I think they may have fell into the
NoTA camp.
They were squabbling quite a bit a few months ago--
not sure how things have progressed.
- check out http://internetcoast.com/nap.php3 ...which
seemed to be biased towards the NoTA side in the
past, and hasn't been updated in a while.
- as usual, when one reads that a company has signed
up as a NAP participant, one should not make any
assumptions that 'NAP participant' means that the
network will do anything specific at all. in my past,
and on more than one occasion, i have seen that
indicating any level of interest can quickly lead
to your name being used as a 'participant.' (not
saying that either of these two have done that.)
...it often turns out that major networks appear at
"exchange points" only to aggregate customers, and
not to peer. (not that this is a bad thing at all--
it's quite useful to not have to pay for loops on
transit connections.)
For what it's worth, I am incredibly interested in
such a facility in that area, and will be looking
@ these efforts again closely in the next few weeks.
I am hoping that things have progressed, and that
the two-camps bit has been sorted out.
- jsb
Note: Everything above is based on public information,
and is presented along with my personal opinion. ;->
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
> i get rumors of one or more exchange points being built in south florida
> where there may be good participation by latin and caribbean networks.
> any good gossip, pointers, ...? any choices which are not carrier jails?
>
> randy
>
