[47855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interconnects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Fri May 17 07:59:44 2002
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:00:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: ren <ren@internet.rockstar.org>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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What about NYIIX/6IIX?
Being in Telehouse where there are no monthly fees for for cross-connects
gives it a financial advantage over Equinix.
Ralph Doncaster
principal, IStop.com
div. of Doncaster Consulting Inc.
On Fri, 17 May 2002, ren wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
>
