[54625] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Puerto Rico Peering Point, or existence thereof.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Jan 10 14:06:48 2003
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: techlist@smoton.net (David Diaz)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:04:30 -0800 (PST)
Cc: woody@pch.net (Bill Woodcock),
ray@oneunified.net (Ray Burkholder), nanog@merit.edu,
nathan.estes@cyberainc.com
In-Reply-To: <p05200f0cba44bfb73a22@[192.0.1.8]> from "David Diaz" at Jan 10, 2003 01:35:03 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I have some history of that effort. It did not gain
traction and folded in less than a year.
>
>
> Actually I know there was something of an IX starting down there
> about 1999. I believe it was in the small cellular companies
> facility. One of the guys from Netrail, Nathan Estes, went down to
> help them out for a week. The name escapes me but perhaps he could
> post it here if he recalls the details.
>
> At the time they had about 6 muxed T1s if I remember and were looking
> at either bringing in a tier1 or getting a DS3 back to the states.
>
> David
>
> At 9:23 -0800 1/10/03, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ray Burkholder wrote:
> > > Anyway, ATT has undersea fibre to Puerto Rico. We want to get a DS3
> > > into a Puerto Rico peering center where we can get connectivity to some
> > > combo of ATT, Sprint, Worldcom, and T-Data. Is anyone familiar with
> > > such a location in PR?
> >
> >I can say with reasonable certainty that one does not exist.
> >http://www.pch.net/resources/data/exchange-points/
> >is the list, and we don't have anything in there for Puerto Rico, which
> >means that there hasn't been one in the past, none presently that we know
> >of, none in the planning stages that we know of, and no unsubstantiated
> >rumors of one.
> >
> > > If not there, how about Florida?
> >
> >As many people have pointed out, NOTA, the NAP of the Americas, in Miami,
> >is probably your best bet.
> >
> > -Bill
>
>
