Re: Interconnects

[Ralph Doncaster <ralph () istop com>]

What about NYIIX/6IIX?
Being in Telehouse where there are no monthly fees for for cross-connects
gives it a financial advantage over Equinix.

Ralph Doncaster
principal, IStop.com     
div. of Doncaster Consulting Inc.

On Fri, 17 May 2002, ren wrote:

> Hi Iljitsch,
>
> I would not consider Sprint NAP, a place closed to new customers for 
> several years, an important interconnect location in the US.  ATM based IXs 
> are not as participant rich as they were 2-3 years ago.
>
> The fastest growing US interconnect locations are cross-connect 
> enabled.  PAIX & Equinix.   Equinix-Ashburn, PAIX-Seattle, Equinix-Newark 
> and Equinix-Dallas and others have seen participation grow with a diverse 
> blend of traffic from cable operators, telcos and content providers.
>
> Tier-1 means what?  Look for growing sources of traffic.
>
> Your mileage may vary, -ren
>
> At 11:48 AM 5/17/2002 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
> > A bunch of us are thinking about multihoming solutions for IPv6. For this
> > purpose, it is useful to know a bit more about how actual networks (rather
> > than the ones existing only as ASCII drawings) interconnect. So:
> >
> > - What are the 12 - 18 most important interconnect locations in the world?
> >   MAE East, the Ameritech, Sprint and PacBell NAPs, PAIX, LINX and AMS-IX
> >   come to mind, but from where I'm sitting it's hard to judge whether
> >   others are important or marginal.
> >
> > - To how many of them do typical tier-1 and tier-2 networks connect?
> >
> > - Using private or public interconnects?