Alaska IXP?
Jared Mauch
jared at puck.nether.net
Thu Mar 4 14:33:39 UTC 2010
On Mar 4, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Antonio Querubin wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Sean Donelan wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any common locations in Alaska where multiple local ISPs exchange traffic, either transit or peering? Or is Seattle the closest exchange point for Alaska ISPs?
>>
>> peeringdb.com lists only SIX (in Seattle) and PAIX Seattle.
>
> Thanks and also thanks to the other folks that replied privately. That matches basically what I had found, but I wanted to check.
>
> Transit is also ok, I'm doing the usual minimum connections/maximum communications in case of (earthquake, volcano, tsunomi, etc) math. Is
> there someplace in Anchorage that buying transit or peering from one or a few ISPs is significant enough, or is it going back to Seattle anyway and
> the local ISPs already have done the math.
What I've seen is that in smaller markets (in my previous life), eg: Michigan, even when the providers are all in the same facility they
1) Lacked understanding of traffic-patterns to understand peering savings
2) Lacked ability to interconnect (eg: no switch on-site, no bgp/routing capability)
3) CLEC or other colo provider prohibited #2
This meant traffic would regularly be diverted to Chicago or similar for exchange between local ISPs.
The one time I was able to pull off a local facility cross-connect, it was difficult to get it at a speed greater than 10megs (this was 1999 or so).
With the dropping metro-ethernet/ftth type equipment that can do 1G for "cheap", perhaps a short fiber build for x-connect would help faciltiate things these days. (i should model that and post the results).
- Jared
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