On Fri, 17 May 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
What about NYIIX/6IIX? Being in Telehouse where there are no monthly fees for for cross-connects gives it a financial advantage over Equinix.
While I agree, IIX relatively speaking is small -- aggregating about 450 to 500 mb/s.
Statistics for the NYIIX switch are very misleading due to the fact that Telehouse NY has such cost effective cross connect fees. Most of the networks there have several private interconnects to their other peers there. Due to the economics compared to exchanges with a similar number of participants and higher cross connect fees, each peer at NYIIX is likely to be more predisposed to establishing private interconnects with their largest traffic flow peers. Telehouse is a great facility to deal with. Also, when considering where to locate equipment I can't help but remind the other person posting about MNFX (which isn't the same corporate entitiy as PAIX) that they should have posted (if they were going to bother to post that kind of thing, which doesn't make friends ;) similar press releases regarding their other choices, or perhaps considering whether the companies they consider alternatives are EBITDA postive (making a profit, or in otherwords will exist in 12 months) today (not in an imaginary planned future) or for the few that are EBITDA positive, whether they actually seem to want your business. PAIX, Palo Alto is another excellent exchange point. I'm sure you can probably get a rack now with all the bankruptcies. If not send me email. Hurricane has IPv6 routers deployed nationally, we are participating in the IPv6 exchange at PAIX, are connected to 6TAP at AADS, and have an IPv6 router at Telehouse. We will be connecting to the 6IIX/NY6IX next week. We are happy to peer natively at any facility we are at or over IPv4 tunnels. We are also happy to allocate a /48 to anybody that is working on getting their pTLA (6BONE) or subTLA (ARIN) (You have to be operational and deployed in order to request and receive your own IPv6 address space from ARIN or 6BONE.) Mike. +------------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -------------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 510 580 4100 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting Colocation Fax 510 580 4151 | | mleber@he.net http://www.he.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+