Coop Peering Fabric??
Jim Mercer
jim at reptiles.org
Tue Aug 12 07:21:00 UTC 2008
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:15:49PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
> A "coop", best-effort switch fabric colo'd at a few sites would allow
> participants to peer off traffic at a price of the order of a single
> cross-connect (~$500/month per 10G port is possible, maybe less),
> private-VLANs all-around, or to only-mutually approved peers (e.g. via
> an automated web interface, prior art) to avoid many of the /old/
> issues. No requirement for multi-lateral peering. You could peer, sell
> transit, buy transit, multicast, etc.
This has been working for years at http://www.torix.net , and on a smaller
scale at http://www.ottix.net
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