Generally one would order a circuit (aka wave) between your location and the IX fabric at the interchange if you're not at the site you're wanting to peer at.   

For instance, the network I am the network engineer for has a circuit which terminates into the Seattle IX (SIX) fabric.   We don't have any other presence in Seattle (or Washington for that matter) at this point - our circuit connects directly to our port on the Exchange.   We're considering adding a similar link to another exchange point somewhere to the east or southeast of us.   I haven't looked at the graphs recently, but it's not uncommon for >50% of our traffic to come from the exchange.   And yes, we're peered with Hurricane and others there.

We're also looking at dropping 1U or so of equipment in so we can pick up some transit as well, but that's a story for a different day about the joys of providing internet in the less populated parts of the country.  

In your case, it also looks like there are also some peering options at the datacenters you are currently at as well.   You may want to do some more research to determine how that might work in your situation.   PeeringDB is a good resource along with google searches for "peering 100 Taylor" or "peering austin data foundry"



On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:51 PM <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote:

Don’t you have to be there to join?

 

I’m in Austin and San Antonio

 

-Aaron

 

From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 7:20 PM
To: Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939

 

https://bgp.he.net/AS16527

 

You don't appear to be on any IXes. Definitely join some IXes before buying another 100G of transit.

 

DFW has a couple and there are some more that are starting up.

 

From: "Aaron Gould" <aaron1@gvtc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:29:55 PM
Subject: Hurricane Electric AS6939

Do y’all like HE for Internet uplink?  I’m thinking about using them for 100gig in Texas.  It would be for my eyeballs ISP.  We currently have Spectrum, Telia and Cogent.

-Aaron

 



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- Forrest