On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:33:17PM +0200, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:
Costs for leased lines from the states to either Linx, Ams-Ix or DE-Cix are all more or less the same. You should chose the ixp from you can benefit most. DE-Cix has done a lot in the past few months to attract more members from eastern Europe. Because of its position just in the middle of Europe you should have the best coverage to western as well as eastern Europe.
A short comparison:
Exchange / Traffic on public exchange vlan / Number of members LINX: ~ 77 Gbps / 210 members AMS-IX: ???* Gbps / 244 members DE-CIX: 51 Gbps / 184 members
* = the webpage says about 110 Gbps but as far as I know a lot of Dutch isps are carrying some sort of mirror-traffic over the ams-ix because of legal monitoring reasons (correct me if I'm wrong)
Without getting in the middle of the eternal contest over who is better, LINX or AMS-IX (each has its own advantages and disadvantages), the AMS-IX website says 165Gbps, the LINX website says 95Gbps (actual publicly switched traffic), and the DECIX website says 71Gbps. Some portion of the AMS-IX traffic seems to be Dutch-specific content that stays in the country, but there is plenty of global traffic there too. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)