ams-ix - worth using?

Wed Aug 23 22:14:42 UTC 2006

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, matthew zeier wrote:

> Does it simply provide an easy way to privately connect to transit and 
> peers? Or can I also go crazy and peer with anyone who wants to peer 
> (like in the olden day!) ?

There are plenty of ISPs both at AMSIX and LINX and they're mostly very 
happy to peer with people that they would otherwise see thru US transit 
partner. My guess is that you'll be able to offload quite a bit of your EU 
transit if you connect to AMSIX.

If you otoh purchase EU transit thru someone, it's quite likely that a 
chunk of the bigger EU ISPs won't peer with you ("we already peer with 
your upstream") so you probably want to think about how you're going to 
play the peering game! :)

Otoh purchasing transit in Amsterdam will probably get you quite decent 
pricing and with your low traffic volume it might make economic sense to 
wait with the peering until you have grown into higher volume.

I'd say AMS-IX is mostly for peering with a lot of people, if that answers 
your question.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se