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<p class="MsoNormal">The biggest difference we see is that the “non commercial” IX’s are now building metro fabrics across multiple different datacenter providers. When you look at the costs, you need to look at the colo as part of that cost also. Allowing
datacenters to compete for space and power drives down the costs for end users while also allowing them to connect to the fabric.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Mike Hammett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 21, 2018 9:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Darin Steffl <darin.steffl@mnwifi.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Non-profit IX vs. neutral for-profit IX<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Someone's typically paying the difference in a non-profit IX. Someone's donating piles of cash, free dark fiber, free colo, etc. You're either paying your own way,
or you have a port subsidized by someone else. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that, but you have to make sure you count that when you talk about "cost".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">They're also over twice the size, and in half the number of buildings (per PeeringDB, anyway). They've also been around over twice as
long. Scale helps with cost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.ics-il.com/"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Computing Solutions</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"Darin Steffl" <<a href="mailto:darin.steffl@mnwifi.com">darin.steffl@mnwifi.com</a>><br>
<b>To: </b>"Mike Hammett" <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net">nanog@ics-il.net</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Mehmet Akcin" <<a href="mailto:mehmet@akcin.net">mehmet@akcin.net</a>>, "NANOG Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 21, 2018 8:34:32 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Non-profit IX vs. neutral for-profit IX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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are virtually nothing which encourages more operators to connect to it versus For-Profit IX's where sometimes the fees are almost as much as transit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">For example Midwest-IX is $9,300 per year for a 10G port but MICE is only $250 per year. That's a HUGE difference and MICE also has way more peers and traffic
overall due to how easy and cheap it is to join.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 8:27 AM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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At our IX, we regularly see clients whose total network usage goes up once they're on the IX.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.ics-il.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Computing Solutions</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<b>To: </b>"Clayton Zekelman" <<a href="mailto:clayton@mnsi.net" target="_blank">clayton@mnsi.net</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Mike Hammett" <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a>>, "NANOG Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>>, "Tim Raphael" <<a href="mailto:raphael.timothy@gmail.com" target="_blank">raphael.timothy@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 21, 2018 8:19:43 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Non-profit IX vs. neutral for-profit IX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">If you want to be for profit, make sure to publish port pricing and keep it fair. Transit is cheap and good quality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 08:14 Clayton Zekelman <<a href="mailto:clayton@mnsi.net" target="_blank">clayton@mnsi.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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TorIX is a great example of a not for profit IX that is very successful.<br>
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<a href="https://www.torix.ca/" target="_blank">https://www.torix.ca/</a> <br>
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A very dedicated team of people provide an incredible level of service.<br>
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Thave a very transparent process. Their pricing is listed up front on their website:<br>
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<a href="https://www.torix.ca/peering/#pricing" target="_blank">https://www.torix.ca/peering/#pricing</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">As far as neutral, I meant separate from the datacenters in which they're housed. People in NA seem to think there are only two kinds
of IXes, Equinix, DRT, Coresite types and NWAX, SIX, MICE types.<br>
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<a href="http://www.ics-il.com/" target="_blank">Intelligent Computing Solutions</a><br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"Tim Raphael" <<a href="mailto:raphael.timothy@gmail.com" target="_blank">raphael.timothy@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>To: </b>"NANOG Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, December 20, 2018 8:39:42 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Non-profit IX vs. neutral for-profit IX<br>
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The other point to consider is that a NFP can justify more locations and offer services (such as extended reach) that don’t have the same profit margins or ROI as for-profits.<br>
This often leads to greater value to those with smaller networks and fewer customers allowing them to grow and expand without increased aggregation or transit costs. This in-turn leads to a richer array of providers and chips away at the monopolies in niche
markets.<br>
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The NFP IXP I work for focuses on providing value to the broader community and the Internet as a whole - especially somewhere like Australia which has unique constraints.<br>
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Additionally, “Neutral†and For-Profit doesn’t always compute in my mind, there will always be commercial alliances that lead to not-total neutrality.<br>
When a NFP is owned by it’s members there has to be 100% transparency in organisational decisions around member funds and resources which ensures accountability reliability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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- Tim<br>
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> On 21 Dec 2018, at 3:58 am, Brielle Bruns <<a href="mailto:bruns@2mbit.com" target="_blank">bruns@2mbit.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> On 12/20/2018 12:51 PM, Aaron wrote:<br>
>> Probably price. Also perception of value. If you're a for profit enterprise then they're paying for interconnection plus your bump. If you're non-profit the perception is that there is a larger value because there's no bump. Whether that's true or not,
who knows but that's the perception I've heard.<br>
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> Depending on the size of the non-profit, I'd almost compare it to how the hospitals are here in Boise.<br>
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> The non-profits are oversized, monopolistic, price gouging, etc. Their care can be pretty meh, esp since they bought up all the little independent clinics (yay, ER pricing for a basic family clinic visit).<br>
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> The for-profit smaller clinics and hospitals run a pretty tight ship, better value for their money, service is very good, and compete with one another for who has the best service.<br>
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> People think they are getting 'better' because they are going to a place that is supposed to be run to benefit people over profit, but alas, you'd be very very wrong.<br>
> -- <br>
> Brielle Bruns<br>
> The Summit Open Source Development Group<br>
> <a href="http://www.sosdg.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sosdg.org</a> /
<a href="http://www.ahbl.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ahbl.org</a> <br>
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