For the first point, you're only speaking about residential - there's lots of business ISPs who have their private networks and feeds across canada. But they're a small part of the market and only some are interested in IXPs.
I posted a comment in the blog about this point - IXPs won't happen unless ISPs see a reason to get back the $20k they spend to connect to them. The only way I see that happening is if the CDNs get on board and install caching boxes there, thereby heavily reducing the ISPs' bandwidth costs. On 6/29/12, John Lange <j...@johnlange.ca> wrote: > IMHO, the blog post misses the mark. > > IXPs exist to peer traffic between ISPs. The reason Canada has so few IXPs, > is because it has so very few "real" ISPs (and Canada has few ISPs because > our telecom policy protects the existing Canadian duopoly by prohibiting > foreign investment). > > In every region in Canada there are (at best), only 2 ways to get to the > internet, your Cable co, or your Telco. Everyone else is just a reseller of > one of those 2 providers. > > From the post: "Creating more IXPs is about improving security, speed and > network resilience, while maximizing the amount of traffic that stays > within Canada for the benefit of all Canadians." > > This is incorrect. The main motivation for setting up an IXP is cost, > network efficiency is only important to the degree that it helps reduce > cost. > > The main ISPs already peer, so setting up more IXPs does nothing to reduce > their cost. In fact it increases their cost because they need more > equipment and management etc. > > I'm also pretty dubious about some of the other claims. Security? How does > an IXP improve security? And I'd be very surprised if any Canada-to-Canada > inter-ISP routing goes through the U.S so the "within Canada" statement > doesn't seem a likely motivation either. > > Don't get me wrong, I not anti IXP, I just don't see a need or a business > case for it. > > John > _______________________________________________ Asterisk mailing list Asterisk@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/asterisk
