Nikos Thank you for your valuable feedback. We will make this happen! Looking forward to your further support
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:32 PM Nikos Mouat <n...@mouats.com> wrote: > > Hi Mehmet - > You mention the SIX so I figured I'd chime in on this thread, despite > being > an old one. > We were in a similar situation in early 1997 - Seattle was a backwoods > as far > as internet infrastructure, with the nearest hub of activity being > Mae-West / > PAIX, and not a whole lot else in our neck of the woods. We had tried to > build > some momentum with a T1/Frame-relay based multi-point peering fabric which > came > online in early '96, but it never got past 5 or 6 participants and didn't > get > much traction with some providers in the region. > We had talked about doing an ethernet based exchange in the Westin, > and the > University of Washington had started talking about building the SNNAP > (Seattle > Network to Network Access Point) which started up a mailing list in early > '97, > but it seemed to always be just over the horizon. (It eventually launched > as the > Pacific Northwest Gigapop, but not until much later, and focused on > research and > education orgs). > When Chris and I were sitting together at Nanog 10, Bill Manning gave a > couple presentations - "International Exchange Points: Growth & Trends" and > "Large & Small Exchange Points: Advantages,Tradeoffs, Futures", and one of > his > key points was something along the lines of "any exchange point with 3 or > more > participants is a successful exchange point". This was ultimately the final > nudge that was needed to convince us to start the peering point, and > shortly > after we got back from Tampa we threw a hub in on a port I was using for a > private peering session and we were in business. We've grown a lot since > then, > certainly the emergence of Seattle as a key content market helped a lot, > but I > think you can draw some parallels. > If you measure success as having three participants peering, and you > find a > way to get off the ground with minimal costs (or as in our case, none at > all), > it's easy to succeed in a not-for-profit model. > My advice to you is to not worry about if any out of region folks are > going > to show up - find a space that folks operating in the region can get to > easily, > build something that is inexpensive to keep online, keep it simple, and > get 3 > participants. Once you're there - look for the 4th, and so on. > > Good luck, > Nikos > > > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Mehmet Akcin 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) > > > > Mehmet > > > > On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:27 AM Mehmet Akcin <meh...@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 > > +1-424-298-1903 > > -- Mehmet +1-424-298-1903
