* deepak@ai.net (Deepak Jain) [Wed 18 Aug 2004, 18:52 CEST]:
Or, perhaps the better question is. How can one justify the cost of _public_ peering when fiber cross-connects are $200-$300/month each.
Perhaps not at the site previously mentioned. I believe fiber crossconnects are cheaper than that at the various AMS-IX housing sites but people still choose to connect to the exchange switch. Bushes of private interconnects tend to quickly become unmanageable (and no, not just those of "throw wire over wall" discussed here some months ago - that's not allowed at any AMS-IX housing site).
I don't think there are too many exchanges anymore that have 80+ active peers. If you do participate in such an exchange, have 80 peers on it, and don't exceed a single port's speed, shame on you. :)
AMS-IX has almost 200 connected parties. Luckily hardly anybody is trying to suck more traffic through their port than it can physically handle. Not everybody has a gigabit per second worth of traffic. Some even make do with a 10baseT connection (full duplex of course :). Apparently still a worthwhile proposition in a world of falling transit prices. -- Niels. -- Today's subliminal thought is: