Re: Puerto Rico Peering Point, or existence thereof.

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

        I have some history of that effort.  It did not gain
        traction and folded in less than a year.

> Actually I know there was something of an IX starting down there 
> about 1999.  I believe it was in the small cellular companies 
> facility.  One of the guys from Netrail, Nathan Estes, went down to 
> help them out for a week.  The name escapes me but perhaps he could 
> post it here if he recalls the details.
>
> At the time they had about 6 muxed T1s if I remember and were looking 
> at either bringing in a tier1 or getting a DS3 back to the states.
>
> David
>
> At 9:23 -0800 1/10/03, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> >       On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ray Burkholder wrote:
> >     > Anyway, ATT has undersea fibre to Puerto Rico.  We want to get a DS3
> >     > into a Puerto Rico peering center where we can get connectivity to some
> >     > combo of ATT, Sprint, Worldcom, and T-Data.  Is anyone familiar with
> >     > such a location in PR?
> >
> > I can say with reasonable certainty that one does not exist.
> > http://www.pch.net/resources/data/exchange-points/
> > is the list, and we don't have anything in there for Puerto Rico, which
> > means that there hasn't been one in the past, none presently that we know
> > of, none in the planning stages that we know of, and no unsubstantiated
> > rumors of one.
> >
> >     > If not there, how about Florida?
> >
> > As many people have pointed out, NOTA, the NAP of the Americas, in Miami,
> > is probably your best bet.
> >
> >                                 -Bill