different thinking on exchanging traffic

Tue May 26 23:28:37 UTC 1998

[ On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 15:38:24 (-0400), Damian O'Gorman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
>
> The same type of project was attemted in Toronto. CANIX was essentially set
> upto cross connect traffic rather than having to traverse the entire US
> network to get
> to the other side of Toronto. The problem was, it became an exclusive
> bilateral peering
> arrangemt with 6 players. That was 1 1/2 years ago. Currently only 2 are
> peered. What in fact was the point. UUnet and Sprint were the big players up
> here and nobody appears to want to cooperate.

There's a new game in town:  TorIX

	<URL:http://www.torontointernetxchange.net/>

They're basically supplying rack space and an ethernet switch port in
Toronto's premier downtown communications interchange location (151
Front St.).  All routing, peering, etc. is completely separate and
totally up to those who drag their own connectivity down to this
location.

I'm not involved in this -- just an interested bystander for now, but it
looks like it's unique in its conception to anything else I've seen
anywhere else to date.

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