[47854] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interconnects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ren)
Fri May 17 07:25:30 2002
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:24:40 -0400
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
From: ren <ren@internet.rockstar.org>
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Hi Iljitsch,
I would not consider Sprint NAP, a place closed to new customers for
several years, an important interconnect location in the US. ATM based IXs
are not as participant rich as they were 2-3 years ago.
The fastest growing US interconnect locations are cross-connect
enabled. PAIX & Equinix. Equinix-Ashburn, PAIX-Seattle, Equinix-Newark
and Equinix-Dallas and others have seen participation grow with a diverse
blend of traffic from cable operators, telcos and content providers.
Tier-1 means what? Look for growing sources of traffic.
Your mileage may vary, -ren
At 11:48 AM 5/17/2002 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>A bunch of us are thinking about multihoming solutions for IPv6. For this
>purpose, it is useful to know a bit more about how actual networks (rather
>than the ones existing only as ASCII drawings) interconnect. So:
>
>- What are the 12 - 18 most important interconnect locations in the world?
> MAE East, the Ameritech, Sprint and PacBell NAPs, PAIX, LINX and AMS-IX
> come to mind, but from where I'm sitting it's hard to judge whether
> others are important or marginal.
>
>- To how many of them do typical tier-1 and tier-2 networks connect?
>
>- Using private or public interconnects?
