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> - Transit providers who came to the exchange point for the purpose of > picking up transit sales. > > - If the exchange point operator is the one carrying the traffic, they > lose for competing with their customers in the previous bullet; they > will have taken the first steps on the path from being an exchange > point operator to being a network-plus-colo provider (where they'll > compete with the network-plus-colo providers just coming out of > bankruptcy with all their debt scraped off). i'm still amazed that nobody has brought up the fact that a couple of the larger colo/exchange operators that claimed they wouldn't compete with their IP customers are indeed selling IP transit-- intentionally undercutting the prices of the providers that colo'd there to sell transit partly because the colo/exchange operator kept telling the world that they would never compete with their customers in the IP transit space. clearly, interconnecting their exchange points to create a richly- connected Internet 'core' is a natural progression if their customers don't complain too loudly. not that it's a bad long-term plan-- but I do agree with Stephen in that it'll be tough for them to survive against the debt-free big boys if they emerge as clear network-plus-colo competitors and lose the few remaining bits of their 'neutral' facade. - jsb -- Jeff Barrows, President Firefly Networks http://FireflyNetworks.net +1 703 287 4221 Voice +1 703 288 4003 Facsimile An Advanced Internet Engineering & Professional Services Organization
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