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Re: Coop Peering Fabric??
From: Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:21:00 -0400
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:15:49PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
A "coop", best-effort switch fabric colo'd at a few sites would allow participants to peer off traffic at a price of the order of a single cross-connect (~$500/month per 10G port is possible, maybe less), private-VLANs all-around, or to only-mutually approved peers (e.g. via an automated web interface, prior art) to avoid many of the /old/ issues. No requirement for multi-lateral peering. You could peer, sell transit, buy transit, multicast, etc.
This has been working for years at http://www.torix.net , and on a smaller scale at http://www.ottix.net -- Jim Mercer jim () reptiles org +971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
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