On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:41:38 CST, Aaron Wendel said:
We have very similar issues in Kansas City. A couple years ago we set up a local exchange point but it's had issues gaining traction due to a lack of understanding more than anything else. In these smaller markets people have a hard time understanding how connecting to a competitor benefits them.
Does anybody have some numbers they're able to share? In the "two small ISPs in the boonies" scenario, *is* there enough cross traffic to make an interconnect worth it? (I'd expect that gaming/IM/email across town to a friend on The Other ISP would dominate here?) Or are both competitors too busy carrying customer traffic to the same sites elsewhere (google, youtube, amazon, etc)? Phrased differently, how big/small a cross-connect is worth the effort?