Mitch what has MFN's financial problems have to do with the quality of the agreements that are in place for peering.
Easy. It fills, and then no one wants to pay to increase it.
If I am not mistaken, this has happened already.
Actually, only the Palo Alto location was ever in this situation, and the parent at the time was Digital Equipment Corporation. MFN did "pay to increase it" when their time came. Six PAIX locations are open today and there is active peering occuring at all of them and there is room for more peers at all of them. Here's the list in case anybody was curious. site | shipto ------+------------------------------------------------------ atl1 | 56 Marrieta St, Floor 5 and 7, Atlanta GA 30303-2885 dfw1 | 1950 Stemmons Fwy, 1st Floor, Dallas TX 75207-3107 jfk1 | 76 9th Ave, #734, New York NY 19911-5201 sea1 | 2001 6th St, 12th Floor, Seattle WA 98121-2855 pao1 | 529 Bryant St, Palo Alto, CA 95301 USA iad1 | 7990 Science Applications Ct, Vienna VA 00000-0000 (6 rows) We are also providing "port only" services at several Abovenet locations, several Switch and Data locations, Dataplex (in Hungary), and e-exchange at 200 Paul St in San Francisco. With more to come. We have exchange agreements in place with SIX (active) and NYIIX (pending), with more to come. I welcome any further questions about PAIX's health or future. When we started this as a DEC business unit in ~1995 we had a 100 year business plan in mind. Looks to me like we're not quite finished, but that we've made an excellent beginning. There's much, much, much more to come. I can't answer questions about PAIX's current parent (MFN) other than to say that there was a press release a month or so back wherein PAIX was called a "nonstrategic" asset and that they intended to sell us. -- Paul Vixie <vixie@eng.paix.net> President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNXE)