NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

Thu Jun 16 18:19:22 UTC 2016

Dne 16.06.16 v 17:17 Niels Bakker napsal(a):
> * zbynek at dialtelecom.cz (Zbyněk Pospíchal) [Thu 16 Jun 2016, 14:23 CEST]:

>> Are you sure they still want them if they have to pay for these
>> features separately?
>>
>> Currently, such luxury functions are increasing costs also for
>> networks who don't need/want it.
> 
> sFlow statistics isn't a luxury function. 

Anything more than plain L2 in an IXP is a kind of luxury. An IXP member
with it's own flow collection (or at least mac accounting) can feel they
don't need sFlow statistics in an exchange. It's also proven it's
possible to run an IXP, including a big one, without sFlow stats.

We can say the same about route servers, SLA, customer portals etc. (ok,
remote peering is a different case).

If IXP members think they have to pay such functionality in their port
fees, ok, it's their own decision, but member's opinion "we don't need
it and we don't want to pay for it" is rational and plausible.

Best Regards,
Zbynek