[72259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Jul 3 16:39:38 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 13:39:03 -0700
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
beware. six is funny. it's in seattle's carrier hotel, the
westin, 32 floors of racks, more colo providers than fleas on a
dawg, and very very low inter-suite fiber rates from the
building owners. so, though the six does have a core, it is
also kinda splattered into switches all over the building; with
ease of connection and low cost being achieved at the expense
of reliability.
and costs are distributed along with the six infrastructure.
so colo provider A may have a switch and charge $a to access
it, while colo provider B may charge $b, where $b != $a.
for a small local exchange this is ok, even cool. i would not
want to do similarly in virginmania or palo attitude, and i
would not join the six if i was a major player (only a research
rack is on the six). my internal indirect costs would not be
worth the traffic shed.
randy
