[91961] in North American Network Operators' Group
AW: ams-ix - worth using?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gunther Stammwitz)
Fri Aug 25 08:11:39 2006
From: "Gunther Stammwitz" <gstammw@gmx.net>
To: "'Richard A Steenbergen'" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: "'Ian Mason'" <nanog@ian.co.uk>, <nanog@merit.edu>,
<aj@net-lab.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:10:35 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20060825012154.GX12298@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Without getting in the middle of the eternal contest over who
> is better, LINX or AMS-IX (each has its own advantages and
> disadvantages), the AMS-IX website says 165Gbps, the LINX
> website says 95Gbps (actual publicly switched traffic), and
> the DECIX website says 71Gbps. Some portion of the AMS-IX
> traffic seems to be Dutch-specific content that stays in the
> country, but there is plenty of global traffic there too.
I've just been in touch with a colleague of mine and he has to add the
following:
"Hey a biased analysis,
IIRC AMS-IX allows all kind of traffic including upstream, not only peering
traffic. DE-CIX is peering only. I assume the CIXes in US behave similar.
Besides that, I wonder what kind of hardware will they be using in the
future, assuming they grow like all other CIXes...."
[I'm posting for Andreas John here because he's currently not subscribed to
this list. Hope that's okay for you.]
Regards,
Gunther
