[46161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Exchange Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Bennett)
Tue Mar 19 11:54:05 2002
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:53:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Jon Bennett <jonb200192865@yahoo.com>
To: "Streiner, Justin" <streiner@stargate.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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> 3) As time passes, more providers either understand
> the benefits of
> peering at an exchange point versus paying
> ${UPSTREAM} to provide transit
> for all of their traffic, or their traffic levels
> grow to the point (see
> point 1) where peering at ${EXCHANGE} begins to make
> financial sense.
> Most providers lack the levels of traffic or the
> geographic footprint to
> peer with the big guys (UUNET, Sprint, AT&T, CW,
> Genuity, etc), who
> typically build private interconnections with each
> other in multiple
> geographically diverse areas. Private interconnects
> are normally not cost
> effective for service providers who don't satisfy
> those criteria, so for
> them, peering at exchange points is more
> financially/technically
> attractive.
>
Is there a need for additional IXs or are there too
many today and some should be consolidated or shut
down altogether? If there is a need for new IXs, where
do you put them? Who decides where to build a new IX
and how do you get service providers to show up there
once it is built?
Thanks.
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