Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* woody () pch net (Bill Woodcock) [Wed 21 Aug 2013, 21:04 CEST]:
[..]
> On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:27 AM, "William F. Maton Sotomayor" 
> <wmaton () ottix net> wrote:
[..]
> > My anxiety lies with the future: Given everything that's already 
> > been written, are any of these IXPs capable of becoming 
> > self-sustaining in the future?  It's a rhetorical question 
> > applicable to any starting IXP.
>
> Indeed.  I think that ISPs who understand their business model well 
> enough to understand the effect the IXP will have on their 
> average-per-bit-delivery-cost is essential.  I think it's also 
> essential that they have some basic familiarity with the different 
> ways IXPs can fail, or fail to thrive, so that they can avoid 
> mistakes others have made in the past.  Over-spending, particularly 
> on switches, is a huge killer of IXPs.  Under-provisioning of 
> circuits to the IXP is another big mistake.  Failure to encourage 
> local content and hosting is another.

Can you cite a few examples of an IXP going under because of 
overspending on switch hardware?  You call this a "huge killer" 
so there must be dozens you can choose from.


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