Re: New York City peering points, alternate to NYIIX??

[alex () nac net]

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Jim Mercer wrote:

> > 1) Telehouse will not allow another peering point at 25 Broadway. Its like
> > saying "I will put my own Giga at MAE-EAST!
>
> i'm looking at a simple switch, allowing the participants to work out their
> own peering arrangements.  we have a small startup one here in Toronto.
>
> is there something in telehouse's contract which would stop me from
> dropping a switch in and opening it up to any and all comers?

Maybe, but not in ours; we've worked in free interconnection. You may be
able to do the same (I encourage it).


> currently, according to telehouse, there are some 70-100 ISP's in the
> manhattan facility.  only something like 12 are jacked into NYIIX, the
> bulk of which are asian ISP's.

Not asian. Mostly Euro, and some big ones (demon, insnet/wisper, etc.)

198.32.160.10   4  6889   25251   21944  3178115    0    0 2w0d
198.32.160.11   4  2529   21460   21924  3178115    0    0 2w0d
198.32.160.12   4  6427   22407   22065  3178115    0    0 4d08h
198.32.160.13   4  6660   21919   21924  3178115    0    0 2w0d
198.32.160.15   4  3384   22347   21949  3178115    0    0 2w0d
198.32.160.16   4  5496   21483   21924  3178115    0    0 2w0d
198.32.160.17   4  6745   21882   21923  3178115    0    0 2w0d
198.32.160.18   4  6652   21249   21923  3178115    0    0 2w0d
198.32.160.22   4  6461   44895   21947  3178115    0    0 1w0d



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