Re: Alaska IXP?

["Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr () baby-dragons com>]

        Hello All ,

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > Are there any common locations in Alaska where multiple local ISPs exchange traffic, either transit or peering?  Or is 
> > Seattle the closest exchange point for Alaska ISPs?
>
> PCH doesn't know of any.  If any exist, we'd very much like to hear about it.  Vancouver BC may technically be closer than 
> Seattle, but that's not a significant answer.
>
>                                -Bill
	Having done a little poking around on this subject for the last 1.5 
Years .  I have not seen a single instance of routing NOT going to Seattle from 
either of the Eye's based networks (ACS/GCI) to any other network based in 
alaska ,  Except through private interconnects .

        Take with grain of salt , ...

                Hth ,  JimL
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