At 10:21 AM 21/08/2013, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote
The Peer1 setups remind me very much of what Group Telecom (defunct Canadian backbone provider) did in the very late 90's and the very early part of the last decade. They had them in nearly every city they had their facilities, but the GT IXPs never caught on ($$$ to get inside the facility and they played hard ball against incumbant access effectively making them closed unless direct GT customers.)
wfms
Just wondering aloud if an ISP that did have commercial interest could run a non-member driven exchange point successfully as long as they had pricing and policies that were similar to member driven exchange points. I have a facility in Windsor, Ontario that is well connected, has all the physical infrastructure necessary, the ability to provide relatively low cost local fibre loops, has an open policy towards other carriers providing transport loops, but alas, it wouldn't be perceived as "neutral". I would suggest that member driven exchanges typically produce the end product that people are interested in. Honestly, if TorIX wasn't member driven, but had the same policies as it does now, I'd still want to connect. Community of interest of course is the other magical ingredient that is necessary. Not sure how many ISPs would want to peer in Windsor... --- Clayton Zekelman Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi) 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E Windsor, Ontario N8W 1H4 tel. 519-985-8410 fax. 519-985-8409