Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

[Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net>]

Basically i and second key person moved to california, could't push
politics remotely and project died after couple gigs if traffic getting
exchanged over ixp via few asns

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:23 PM William Allen Simpson <
william.allen.simpson () gmail com> wrote:

> On 8/12/17 7:27 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
> > Hey there!
> >
> > ... ok this time I am not going to call it PRIX ;)
>
> I thought that was a perfectly good name.
>
> > [...] The jsland historically had one of the slowest
> > broadband/internet services which seemed to have improved in recent years
> > however as of 2017 there still is not an IX in Puerto rico.
> What happened to Internet Exchange of Puerto Rico (ix.pr)?
>
> Run by AS36810?
>
>
> > We , 3-4 internet engineers (on island and remote) , want to look into
> > relaunch of this IX and hopefully find a way to keep local traffic
> > exchanged at high speeds and low cost. We need expertise, and people who
> > want to help any way they can.
> https://www.pch.net/
>
>
> > We are trying to make this IX a not-for-profit one and we are looking at
> > opeeating models to adapt which has worked incredibly well like Seattle
> IX.
> > We are hoping the relaunch to happen sometime in 2018. Thanks in advance
> > hope to share more info and traffic data sometime , soon. Watch this
> space!
> >