US-Asia Peering

Mon Jan 13 21:25:27 UTC 2003

>> How do you see the failed AMS-IX expansion fit into this?
>>
>> My (very simplified) summary of what happened was that :
>> ...
>> At the time of the origin of the discussion I was peering 
>> co-ordinator at
>> KPNQwest, and would have pulled-out of AMS-IX if the plans (and 
>> KQ..:) )
>> would have moved on.
>
> well of course i'm not bill, but (naturally) i will comment anyway.  
> was
> AMS-IX planning to expand beyond its original metro and bridge all the 
> XP
> switches together?  if so then i understand exactly why KQ and other 
> ISP's
> would have pulled out of AMS-IX in protest (and in fear).  however, if 
> the
> expansion was intra-metro, then i must be confused, because KQ's major
> source of bandwidth revenue should have been inter-metro not 
> intra-metro.
>

They planed to interconnect other (well, one) other exchanges in NL.

Best regards,

- kurtis -