Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

> On Sep 13, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net> wrote:
>
> It has been little over a year and we have been working on launching an internet exchange in puerto rico but of 
> course hurricane and other things got in the way of achieving this.
>
> We now have identified what we believe the right location (most of the isp’s have presence in this location) 
> backbone/ip transit connectivity, local team to provide onsite support.
>
> Having said that We have been engaged with several content delivery networks, OTTs but general feedback was that 
> Puerto Rico was not on their radar for 2018 hence delayed launch. Now we are talking to same players about 2019 but 
> general answer seemed like people were satisfied enough to serve Puerto Rico from Miami.
>
> Perhaps we are talking to really big CDNs, OTTs and we should engage differently however the level of interest is 
> very low and I really don’t want to “build and they will come” again ;-)
>
> Bottom line is, if there was an IXP in Puerto Rico similar to ones in Florida, I am trying to understand who would 
> actually deploy (just speak to your company only please) because most of my assumptions were proven wrong ;-)
>
> I guess I want to ask two questions, given its location in caribbean, does Puerto Rico need an internet exchange 
> point? Would you join it?(it will be a membership based IXP where members share cost)

Looking at it in my mind,  the decision point is really about how much traffic can be served by being there. It took a 
long time to recover to pre-hurricane levels. I would hope in the longer term that it’s a growth story and makes that 
more compelling, actually having a destination to put equipment in  and reach peers helps of course.

Having any anycast service, to me it looks like Puerto Rico has significant connectivity landing places other than 
Miami. Most likely due to America Movil MAC and PCCS or other landings in the US/BVI. We we see Puerto Rican networks 
reach us in Atlanta, DC area and even New York.


> Mehmet
>
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:27 AM Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net <mailto:mehmet () akcin net>> wrote:
> Hey there!
>
> ... ok this time I am not going to call it PRIX ;) well name doesn't matter really. Nearly 13 years ago I have 
> attempted to start Puerto rico Internet exchange in San Juan. I have lived there over 5 years and i just wanted to 
> really watch videos faster. The project somewhat died when i moved to LA but now there are few interested party to 
> start an internet exchange in Puerto rico. The jsland historically had one of the slowest broadband/internet services 
> which seemed to have improved in recent years however as of 2017 there still is not an IX in Puerto rico.
>
> We , 3-4 internet engineers (on island and remote) , want to look into relaunch of this IX and hopefully find a way 
> to keep local traffic exchanged at high speeds and low cost. We need expertise, and people who want to help any way 
> they can.
>
> We are trying to make this IX a not-for-profit one and we are looking at opeeating models to adapt which has worked 
> incredibly well like Seattle IX.
>
> We are hoping the relaunch to happen sometime in 2018. Thanks in advance hope to share more info and traffic data 
> sometime , soon. Watch this space!
>
> Mehmet
> --
> Mehmet
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