Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

2018-09-13 Thread Mehmet Akcin
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/

RE: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

2018-09-13 Thread James Breeden
Mehmet, My opinion to you (and I have no network in the Carribbean or interest in it other than a purely academic and technical exercise) would be that you guys go ahead and start, even if you just initially split the cost of the switch and interfaces to peer among yourselves. Once you get a b

Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

2018-09-13 Thread Joel Jaeggli
> On Sep 13, 2018, at 1:27 PM, 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

Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

2018-09-13 Thread Mel Beckman
Mehmet, In general an IX only makes sense when there are local resources to exchange. It doesn’t seem like PR has a lot of, if any, content providers of its own, so most consumer content is coming from offshore anyway. Given modern DWDM fiber, backhauling all that content shouldn’t be an issue.

Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

2018-09-13 Thread Ben Cannon
Our SF2 facility’s IXP has a Netflix OpenFiler; https://openconnect.netflix.com That alone might be worth an XC/IXP. Even where bandwidth is available, it can still be prohibitively expensive - conversely lowering costs could translate to lowered fees to customers. -Ben. > On Sep 13, 201