PAIX shares MFN/Abovenet's peering agreements? That's quite a trick. While Above does peer at PAIX, as do many other folks, the amount of peering that Above has there does not speak to the quality of the exchange point, nor does it add value in any real way. There is MFN fiber in there, but that goes without saying. This is not to slam PAIX or Paul Vixie - I'm a big PAIX fan, and Paul has done a superb job. However, MFN adds no value, and only hurts PAIX's credibility with it's massive financial problem. PAIX without MFN will, once again, be a great thing. Hopefully this will be soon. - Daniel Golding
todd glassey Says...
PAIX is a division of MFN (Metropolitan Fiber Networks) as Above.NET is as well. That means they share MFN's connectivity and peering agreements and as such are incredibly rich environments. Especially with someone like Paul Vixie running it, (PAIX that is) my take is that these are number one providers.
I must admit though that I am a staunch Above.NET supporter and have been for ages having a single digit customer ID.
Todd
----- Original Message ----- From: "ren" <ren@internet.rockstar.org> To: "Ralph Doncaster" <ralph@istop.com> Cc: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>; <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Interconnects
That depends on your corporate needs for power, security, remote hands, etc. The extended services found at Equinix & PAIX are very
many networks.
-ren
At 08:00 AM 5/17/2002 -0400, 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.
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
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
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
important for based diverse 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?