On 5 Nov 2024, at 16:56, Tom Beecher wrote:
Especially so if a few of the large content providers continue to pull back from route servers and such. Content providers aren't leaving IXP's completely. They're still there, still paying monthly for ports and XCs. Still doing bilateral peering over the IX. There's no revenue hit to an IXP for a CDN to de-peer off the route servers.
Hi Tom, I don’t really think your last statement is true. UK, and London in particular, is quite a dynamic market. At LONAP we see plenty of networks connect and see an immediate “quick win” of traffic by connection to our route-servers, where adoption among the membership is something like 85-90%. If an operator decides to replace those RS sessions with a (often intractable) portal to request bilateral sessions - or worse, email - that immediate traffic benefit is lost. That can affect the value the IXP provides to its members. Will