[38465] in North American Network Operators' Group
small exchanges (was: Re: PSINet and C&W peering)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Tue Jun 5 13:51:46 2001
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:50:32 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>,
John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>,
Mitchell Levinn <levinn@psi.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0106051733530.28142-100000@www.everquick.net>; from eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:39:41PM +0000
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:39:41PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> > BTW, to solve these types of problems, Smaller companies need to band
> > together and start peering with each other in the local metro area.
>
> Until the smaller companies get bought out by OneM^H^H^H^H a national
> provider who has no interest in peering.
>
> Quite frankly, it seems that most smaller companies have no clue what the
> heck peering is or why it's good. I've approached a few, and none seem to
> get it.
i have been involved with a couple small exchanges, and the way it worked for
us was "build it and they will come".
initially TorIX was only a few ISP's who happened to be in the same building.
then a few other ISP's pulled in circuits and peered.
then i bumped into an @home tech, and they jacked in.
it took 4+ years to get the momentum going, but now we have a pretty good
peering thing going on.
so, if you can at least get one other ISP to peer, pick a good place, and
drive a stake in the ground.
others may migrate towards it.
(some of the selling points are sharing usenet news feeds and/or http caches)
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