At 08:00 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:

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Pick a strategy and run with it. Being a broadband provider in SE Canada, I suggest sniffing out public peering in NYC and CHI for a start. IIRC, Hotmail and Y! are at AADS and will peer with most anyone -- there's a good chunk of traffic. Now Akamaize your network if you haven't already.

I'm already working on NYC. For Chicago an OC3 connection to AADS would cost more than the long-haul back to Toronto. I also prefer ethernet peering instead of ATM. Equinix looks like the best option in Chicago, but most long-haul carriers are in 600 Federal and not 350 Cermak.

As for Akamai, I've found very little of my traffic (<5%) is Akamai. Akamai is at NYIIX anyway, so once I get into 25 Broadway I'd peer with them.

Mind if I ask how you got the traffic stats for Akamai?

-Ralph

-- TTFN, patrick