DE-CIX vs Equinix

Thu Jul 23 16:37:37 UTC 2015

Agreed. It costs more to transport an IX to another location than the IX makes off of the port they sold you. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com> 
To: "Charles Gucker" <cgucker at onesc.net> 
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:49:29 AM 
Subject: Re: DE-CIX vs Equinix 

> As DE-CIX learned, NYC is a very difficult market to get connectivity 
> and to build an exchange in. As such their operating costs are a lot 
> higher than in other markets 

circuits in the states are more painful than northern europe, japan, 
etc. a bunch of smaller isps in the states were annoyed at equinix's 
domination of the east coast markets so encouraged some european 
community exchanges to colonize. what they did not do was offer to 
subsidize any surprizes in expense, gaining a market foothold, etc. 
this is sometimes known as "let's you and him fight." 

randy 