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Thu Jun 6 14:28:40 UTC 2002

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:13:08PM +0200, Daniska Tomas wrote:
> how would you guarantee connectivity?
> 

as you have a lot of ISPs around you it should be really easy to get some
connectivity. Very easy: tell some friendly ISP to announce your prefix/AS
to outside.

> should each isp present should provide bandwidth as part of collocation expenses?

What do you mean by this? If some ISP want to donate bw, nice. If not also Ok.

> should the opexes be included in the colo bill?

Which colo bill? 

> 
> and then - this would probably make the colo becoming a connectivity provider, wouldn't it?
> 

Not necessarily. This much depends on your IXP model. Let's take DE-CIX. 
There is an association running DE-CIX, but InterXion as colo partner takes
cae for a lot of things. If DE-CIX would offer infrastructural services,
InterXion still would remain a simple colo provider.

Arnold
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