Well, we would have a BGP router in another town. Then get a wave from a transport provider from the other town to the town that equinix or the peering exchange was located at. The cross connect would go from the transport providers Z location to the port on the exchange. I have confirmed that Equinix is willing to sell us a port on the exchange even if we don't have a physical presence there. On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:45 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:34:14 -0500, Eric Van Tol said:
but I know at one time they required a physical presence in the in the IDC for an Exchange cross-connect.
At the risk of being snarky, if somebody doesn't have a presence where do you connect the other end of the cross-connect cable? :)
(Note that's different than "I'm in a PoP on the west side of town, and the logical place to land my uplink is blade 2, port 3 of a router belonging to $upstream over on the east side of town" - that's an external connection not a cross-connect)