different thinking on exchanging traffic
D'Arcy J.M. Cain
darcy at druid.net
Wed May 27 11:13:48 UTC 1998
Thus spake Damian O'Gorman
> 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 is another project starting up now which is a little more egalitarian.
Check out http://www.torontointernetxchange.net/.
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