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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre
> ... So - that is the larger picture, but was not my question to NANOG. > > We wish to be able to provide this peering, but we find that UUnets > cross-connect policy interferes with our aims - as it requires potential > peers in the data center to separately purchase connectivity to us (in > the same building) instead of hopping onto our link by cross-connecting > to another cabinet in the data center, which (of course) they waive > for connections to the CINX cabinet. > > My question was if this was common practice. yes, it's common for a hosting facility (which uunet cape town is.) it would not be common in a carrier/fiber hotel. if there is one of those in town you'd be well served to talk to the landlord about supporting a peering exchange there, since it will drive other sales, and the openness of it will ultimately pull business away from the necessarily-more-closed peering exchange over in the hosting center.
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