Puerto Rico Peering Point, or existence thereof.
I work for an ISP in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. (If you happen to pass through, drop by for a visit). Anyway, ATT has undersea fibre to Puerto Rico. We want to get a DS3 into a Puerto Rico peering center where we can get connectivity to some combo of ATT, Sprint, Worldcom, and T-Data. Is anyone familiar with such a location in PR? If not there, how about Florida? Ray Burkholder
If not there, how about Florida?
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I know that AT&T and WorldCom both have pops in San Juan. I'm not familiar with T-data. If you're looking for robustness, go with Miami: pretty much everyone has a pop there. David Barak fully RFC 1925 compliant --- Ray Burkholder <ray@oneunified.net> wrote:
I work for an ISP in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. (If you happen to pass through, drop by for a visit).
Anyway, ATT has undersea fibre to Puerto Rico. We want to get a DS3 into a Puerto Rico peering center where we can get connectivity to some combo of ATT, Sprint, Worldcom, and T-Data. Is anyone familiar with such a location in PR?
If not there, how about Florida?
Ray Burkholder
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ray Burkholder wrote: > Anyway, ATT has undersea fibre to Puerto Rico. We want to get a DS3 > into a Puerto Rico peering center where we can get connectivity to some > combo of ATT, Sprint, Worldcom, and T-Data. Is anyone familiar with > such a location in PR? I can say with reasonable certainty that one does not exist. http://www.pch.net/resources/data/exchange-points/ is the list, and we don't have anything in there for Puerto Rico, which means that there hasn't been one in the past, none presently that we know of, none in the planning stages that we know of, and no unsubstantiated rumors of one. > If not there, how about Florida? As many people have pointed out, NOTA, the NAP of the Americas, in Miami, is probably your best bet. -Bill
Actually I know there was something of an IX starting down there about 1999. I believe it was in the small cellular companies facility. One of the guys from Netrail, Nathan Estes, went down to help them out for a week. The name escapes me but perhaps he could post it here if he recalls the details. At the time they had about 6 muxed T1s if I remember and were looking at either bringing in a tier1 or getting a DS3 back to the states. David At 9:23 -0800 1/10/03, Bill Woodcock wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ray Burkholder wrote: > Anyway, ATT has undersea fibre to Puerto Rico. We want to get a DS3 > into a Puerto Rico peering center where we can get connectivity to some > combo of ATT, Sprint, Worldcom, and T-Data. Is anyone familiar with > such a location in PR?
I can say with reasonable certainty that one does not exist. http://www.pch.net/resources/data/exchange-points/ is the list, and we don't have anything in there for Puerto Rico, which means that there hasn't been one in the past, none presently that we know of, none in the planning stages that we know of, and no unsubstantiated rumors of one.
> If not there, how about Florida?
As many people have pointed out, NOTA, the NAP of the Americas, in Miami, is probably your best bet.
-Bill
I have some history of that effort. It did not gain traction and folded in less than a year.
Actually I know there was something of an IX starting down there about 1999. I believe it was in the small cellular companies facility. One of the guys from Netrail, Nathan Estes, went down to help them out for a week. The name escapes me but perhaps he could post it here if he recalls the details.
At the time they had about 6 muxed T1s if I remember and were looking at either bringing in a tier1 or getting a DS3 back to the states.
David
At 9:23 -0800 1/10/03, Bill Woodcock wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ray Burkholder wrote: > Anyway, ATT has undersea fibre to Puerto Rico. We want to get a DS3 > into a Puerto Rico peering center where we can get connectivity to some > combo of ATT, Sprint, Worldcom, and T-Data. Is anyone familiar with > such a location in PR?
I can say with reasonable certainty that one does not exist. http://www.pch.net/resources/data/exchange-points/ is the list, and we don't have anything in there for Puerto Rico, which means that there hasn't been one in the past, none presently that we know of, none in the planning stages that we know of, and no unsubstantiated rumors of one.
> If not there, how about Florida?
As many people have pointed out, NOTA, the NAP of the Americas, in Miami, is probably your best bet.
-Bill
However, NOTA doesn't have either AT&T or WorldCom... so if you don't mind using other carriers, there were a bunch of medium-size players, and I believe a couple of large ones there. David Barak fully RFC 1925 compliant. --- Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
As many people have pointed out, NOTA, the NAP of the Americas, in Miami, is probably your best bet.
-Bill
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