Re: US-Asia Peering

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis () kurtis pp se>]

> > How do you see the failed AMS-IX expansion fit into this?
> >
> > My (very simplified) summary of what happened was that :
> > ...
> > At the time of the origin of the discussion I was peering 
> > co-ordinator at
> > KPNQwest, and would have pulled-out of AMS-IX if the plans (and 
> > KQ..:) )
> > would have moved on.
>
> well of course i'm not bill, but (naturally) i will comment anyway.  
> was
> AMS-IX planning to expand beyond its original metro and bridge all the 
> XP
> switches together?  if so then i understand exactly why KQ and other 
> ISP's
> would have pulled out of AMS-IX in protest (and in fear).  however, if 
> the
> expansion was intra-metro, then i must be confused, because KQ's major
> source of bandwidth revenue should have been inter-metro not 
> intra-metro.

They planed to interconnect other (well, one) other exchanges in NL.

Best regards,

- kurtis -