Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

Sun Aug 13 20:23:24 UTC 2017

On 8/12/17 7:27 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
> Hey there!
> 
> ... ok this time I am not going to call it PRIX ;) 

I thought that was a perfectly good name.

> [...] The jsland historically had one of the slowest
> broadband/internet services which seemed to have improved in recent years
> however as of 2017 there still is not an IX in Puerto rico.
> 
What happened to Internet Exchange of Puerto Rico (ix.pr)?

Run by AS36810?

> We , 3-4 internet engineers (on island and remote) , want to look into
> relaunch of this IX and hopefully find a way to keep local traffic
> exchanged at high speeds and low cost. We need expertise, and people who
> want to help any way they can.
> 
https://www.pch.net/

> We are trying to make this IX a not-for-profit one and we are looking at
> opeeating models to adapt which has worked incredibly well like Seattle IX.
> 
> We are hoping the relaunch to happen sometime in 2018. Thanks in advance
> hope to share more info and traffic data sometime , soon. Watch this space!
> 