Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic

["Damian O'Gorman" <damian () cyberdude com>]

Who is currently exchanging traffic there ?

Damian

Michael Gibson wrote:

> CANIX is a co-operative peering point for National Canadian Traffic.
>
> Currently, they are seven national ISPs exchanging traffic at that point.
>
> Mike Gibson - Netcom Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damian O'Gorman <damian () cyberdude com>
> To: Sean Donelan <SEAN () SDG DRA COM>
> Cc: nanog () merit edu <nanog () merit edu>
> Date: 5/26/1998 17:31
> Subject: Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
>
> > > Of course, not every local ISP participates.  The state subsidized
> > > education network doesn't connect, nor do some the dialup ISPs.  But
> > > it gets a reasonable level of support from several of the larger
> > > area providers.
> >
> > The same type of project was attemted in Toronto. CANIX was essentially set
> > upto cross connect traffic rather than having to traverse the entire US
> > network to get
> > to the other side of Toronto. The problem was, it became an exclusive
> > bilateral peering
> > arrangemt with 6 players. That was 1 1/2 years ago. Currently only 2 are
> > peered. What in fact was the point. UUnet and Sprint were the big players
> up
> > here and nobody appears to want to cooperate.
> >
> > > But exchange points are one of those weird creatures.  If I'm paying
> > > a big expensive backbone, why would I get anything from a local exchange
> > > point?  And of course, the ever popular "What's the catch?"  Since
> > > local exchange points are generally run on a non-profit basis, that
> > > means there isn't a large marketing organization, or a huge gaggle of
> > > salespeople trying to sell it.  If you like, we can call it a "managed
> > > connection" and charge you $1,000/month.  But that seems steep for
> > > essentially a port on a catalyst switch.
> >
> > Damian O'Gorman