Re: PRIX update

[Andy Ringsmuth <andy () andyring com>]

Congrats, Mehmet! Your persistence is paying off!

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> On Apr 13, 2024, at 10:14 AM, Mehmet <mehmet () akcin net> wrote:
>
> Hello NANOG
>
> Little bit less than 19 years ago when PRIX was launched I had a dream to connect many ISPs in the island.
>
> during last 19 years several attempts were made to relaunch an IX but finally last three years a small group of 
> volunteers have really helped PRIX to be come a reality not an IX with PowerPoint and no traffic.
>
> You can hear the story from those who have significantly helped from project here 
> https://www.youtube.com/live/kCp4kK-mavU?si=N82CGRSatdzrmX2H
>
> This week there is Global Peering Forum in Puerto Rico, and I as one of the old time nanoger + local(i dont live here 
> anymore but, you know what i mean want to welcome and send this update about PRIX
>
> https://www.puertoricoix.net has broken traffic record 30Gbps last week and with some more caches in the process of 
> being enabled as well as some key peers (listed on the website), next goal is 100G and this can be achieved with 
> those of you who has an ability to help deploy more caches in Puerto Rico! 🇵🇷 
>
> I want to take a moment thank Jeff, Ivan, and Gino for all the hard work behind. 
>
> If you are attending GPF this week, let’s talk and see what else we can do to improve internet in Puerto Rico and 
> Caribbean! Any questions related to PRIX feel free to contact me offlist 
>
> Mehmet
>
> Note: all links below are broken 😞 
> PRIX - Puerto RIco Internet Exchange
>
>     • From: Mehmet Akcin
>     • Date: Tue Sep 27 12:50:12 2005
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to speak with people who were / are working in IX points and/or have
> knowledge about the infrastructure of IX points.
>
> We , a small group of researchers , have started a Project called Prix [
> http://prix.uprr.pr ] which has the intentions of creating a large table for
> those who would like to sit down, in other terms an internet exchange point
> where all the participants can peer.
>
> Our main goal is to improve the existing connectivity between the major backbone
> providers and improve the connectivity between them with peering locally instead
> of peering somewhere in the states, which is couple of thousands miles far from
> Puerto Rico.
>
> We believe improving the network connectivity of the island will definately led
> those who live in Puerto Rico to think of using VoIP technologies more often.
>
> We, myself and a friend of mine who is also participating in this project, will
> be participating in NANOG and hopefully can meet with those who has experience
> in order to get recommendations about hardware/software and policies.
>
> Thank you
>
> Mehmet Akcin, PRIX