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. Also, you don't find many US-based internation networks there (ie, UU, Sprint, CW, PSI/Cogent, etc.); however, the participation of Asian and European networks is very impressive. Also, the IIX is run the way I like a NAP run (as if my opinion matters on this); cheap, simplistic, and reliable. I don't know of any other NAP that can claim all three.
Ralph Doncaster principal, IStop.com div. of Doncaster Consulting Inc.
On Fri, 17 May 2002, ren wrote:
Hi Iljitsch,
I would not consider Sprint NAP, a place closed to new customers for several years, an important interconnect location in the US. ATM based IXs are not as participant rich as they were 2-3 years ago.
The fastest growing US interconnect locations are cross-connect enabled. PAIX & Equinix. Equinix-Ashburn, PAIX-Seattle, Equinix-Newark and Equinix-Dallas and others have seen participation grow with a diverse blend of traffic from cable operators, telcos and content providers.
Tier-1 means what? Look for growing sources of traffic.
Your mileage may vary, -ren
At 11:48 AM 5/17/2002 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
A bunch of us are thinking about multihoming solutions for IPv6. For this purpose, it is useful to know a bit more about how actual networks (rather than the ones existing only as ASCII drawings) interconnect. So:
- What are the 12 - 18 most important interconnect locations in the world? MAE East, the Ameritech, Sprint and PacBell NAPs, PAIX, LINX and AMS-IX come to mind, but from where I'm sitting it's hard to judge whether others are important or marginal.
- To how many of them do typical tier-1 and tier-2 networks connect?
- Using private or public interconnects?
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