concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

Sat Jul 3 16:10:50 UTC 2004

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

> it costs to build, maintain, and manage an exchange which carries
> significant traffic.  costs get recovered.  life is simple.

What is significant traffic? What is the cost? If you have an exchange
with let's say 20 people connected to it and they all connect using GE.
Running this exchange in an existing facility with existing people, you
can easily run it for under $10k per year per connected operator or less 
as you already have engineers that are on site frequently, you already 
have a billing department etc.

It's when the exchange is being run by a separate entity that needs a 
marketing department, a well-paid staff of managers, technicians etc that 
price really goes up. All this to basically manage a simple ethernet 
switch that needs some patching a couple of times a month at maximum.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se