What about NYIIX/6IIX? Being in Telehouse where there are no monthly fees for for cross-connects gives it a financial advantage over Equinix.
Ralph Doncaster principal, IStop.com div. of Doncaster Consulting Inc. On Fri, 17 May 2002, ren wrote: > > Hi Iljitsch, > > I would not consider Sprint NAP, a place closed to new customers for > several years, an important interconnect location in the US. ATM based IXs > are not as participant rich as they were 2-3 years ago. > > The fastest growing US interconnect locations are cross-connect > enabled. PAIX & Equinix. Equinix-Ashburn, PAIX-Seattle, Equinix-Newark > and Equinix-Dallas and others have seen participation grow with a diverse > blend of traffic from cable operators, telcos and content providers. > > Tier-1 means what? Look for growing sources of traffic. > > Your mileage may vary, -ren > > At 11:48 AM 5/17/2002 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > >A bunch of us are thinking about multihoming solutions for IPv6. For this > >purpose, it is useful to know a bit more about how actual networks (rather > >than the ones existing only as ASCII drawings) interconnect. So: > > > >- What are the 12 - 18 most important interconnect locations in the world? > > MAE East, the Ameritech, Sprint and PacBell NAPs, PAIX, LINX and AMS-IX > > come to mind, but from where I'm sitting it's hard to judge whether > > others are important or marginal. > > > >- To how many of them do typical tier-1 and tier-2 networks connect? > > > >- Using private or public interconnects? > > >