### On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:46:57 +0100 (CET), Iljitsch van Beijnum
### [EMAIL PROTECTED] casually decided to expound upon Jon Bennett
### [EMAIL PROTECTED] the following thoughts about Re: Internet
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IvB This hasn't happened. However, the reasoning still stands: why buy
3) As time passes, more providers either understand
the benefits of
peering at an exchange point versus paying
${UPSTREAM} to provide transit
for all of their traffic, or their traffic levels
grow to the point (see
point 1) where peering at ${EXCHANGE} begins to make
financial sense.
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Jon Bennett wrote:
Is there a need for additional IXs or are there too
many today and some should be consolidated or shut
down altogether? If there is a need for new IXs, where
do you put them? Who decides where to build a new IX
and how do you get service providers to
At 12:24 pm -0500 19/3/02, Streiner, Justin wrote:
http://www.ep.net/ lists many exchange points around the world, large and
small.
And for European IXPs there is now an association:
http://www.euro-ix.net/
Which has details of the member exchanges.
f
which
Is there a need for additional IXs or are there too
many today and some should be consolidated or shut
down altogether? If there is a need for new IXs, where
do you put them? Who decides where to build a new IX
and how do you get service providers to show up there
On 19 Mar 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
As for your question re: PAIX, it is a well-engineered exchange point that
has been around for a long time, with an extensive member list. That,
plus whatever revenue stream PAIX has would probably make an attractive
acquisition for several companies.
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Andy Dills wrote:
This industry is so far in the shitter...so many of the big names,
including players from the early days, are in chapter 11 or about to be.
I'm honestly surprised that I haven't had someone try to offer me a
'genuine steal' on 20-year IRUs in awhile ;-)
you know who to yell at.
Until MFN sells them in coming months in their attempts to pay off
billions of dollars of debt...
No change is expected in who you yell at if PAIX isn't doing a good job.
(That is, me.)
--
Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNX)
Yo, Bill (sleepy)
I know of 323 IXes today.
http://www.pch.net/documents/data/exchange-points/ep-in-addrs.xls
Well, this is one place where we diverge... :)
I'd state that there are 323 prefixes in use at exchanges
but that there are somewhat fewer switch fabrics in
I know of 323 IXes today.
http://www.pch.net/documents/data/exchange-points/ep-in-addrs.xls
Well, this is one place where we diverge... :)
I'd state that there are 323 prefixes in use at exchanges
but that there are somewhat fewer switch fabrics in place,
Streiner, Justin wrote:
If there is a need for new IXs, where do you put them? Who decides
where to build a new IX and how do you get service providers to show up
there once it is built?
These days, that can be a chicken-and-egg question. There really isn't a
formalized process for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
which is linked from the www.ep.net site... :)
But:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Protocols/IP/IPng/IPv6_Internet_Excha
nges/
Isn't listed there though :(
And it lists afaik all, native IPv6 Exchange Points...
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:53:23AM -0800, Jon Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a need for additional IXs or are there too
many today and some should be consolidated or shut
down altogether? If there is a need for new IXs, where
do you put them? Who decides where to build a new
I am a business school student studying the state of the telecom sector and specifically the Internet infrastructure. I am currently trying to understand the role theIX such as PAIX, Equinix, Telehouse, etc.. will play in the future where the number of service providers is drastically reduced
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