Some Caribbean islands had IXs in landing stations early on IIRC. Usually before the island built it’s first datacenter.
Some of them were better/faster about moving to the datacenter once it was established than others. Owen > On Nov 15, 2019, at 01:47 , Martijn Schmidt via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > I think AMS-IX had an exchange in Mombasa in the SEACOM landing station at > some point, but that is gone now. I'm not sure about the exact reasons there > but someone here probably knows what happened. > > There's also a big amount of carriers in the TATA landing station in Mumbai, > it is the second-largest in that market just behind GPX in terms of carrier > density at least according to PeeringDB. > > Best regards, > Martijn > > On 11/15/19 3:58 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: >> Hey there >> >> I have been putting my thoughts on Infrapedia blog and sharing with folks >> like >> >> https://www.infrapedia.com/post/top20cities-datacenters >> <https://www.infrapedia.com/post/top20cities-datacenters> >> >> I am working on a new article and this time my topic will be looking at >> cable landing stations(cls). Do you consider cable landing stations as a >> datacenter? Do you have any experience deploying a pop in CLS? Are you able >> to share (on or off record) your experience which I can refer as your >> experience (good or bad) why deploying a pop inside a CLS is good or bad >> idea. Any additional comments.. >> >> I am not a big fan of CLS deployments. They have limited networks ( like >> only carriers and no eyeballs) and very expensive connectivity (usually) >> >> Thank you in advance sharing your experience >> >> Mehmet >> >> -- >> Mehmet >> +1-424-298-1903 >
