[39234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Peers at PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Nielsen)
Fri Jun 29 01:39:13 2001
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:38:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>
To: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> It was neither a cheap nor an easy proposition for us to get our
> router into PAIX. In fact, its probably the most expensive bandwidth
> I run since the DS3 is way under utilized. The main reason I did it
> was to reduce network distance to major peers. My only wish is that
> peering at all exchanges was more open, as it increases their
> usefulness. Finding another peering point where I can get 20+ willing
> peers like PAIX is a struggle.
if and when paix links to mae-west-ames, you can get a link to the FDDI
exchange. there is always PBNap and MAE-WEST-ATM (tho I dont know the
costs)
Christian
