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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > The LINX consists of a handful > > of distributed and interconnected switches such that customers are able to > > choose which site they want for colo. Likewise for the AMS-IX and a handful > > of other dominant European exchanges. > > Correct. Within the metro area. That is, as has been documented many > times over, a necessary condition for long-term stability. Theres an increasing number of "psuedo-wire" connections tho, you could regard these L2 extensions an extension of the switch as a whole making it international. Where the same pseudo wire provider connects to say LINX, AMSIX, DECIX your only a little way off having an interconnection of multiple IXs, its possible this will occur by accident .. Steve > > > >It's one of the many, many ways in which exchange points commit suicide. > > > > I'd love to see a list of the ways IXes commit suicide. Can you rattle off > > a few? > > 1) Cross the trust threshhold in the wrong direction. > 2) Cross the cost-of-transit threshhold in the wrong direction. > 3) Increase shared costs until conditions 1 and/or 2 are met. > > Those are sort of meta-cases which encompass most of the specific failure > modes. Of course, you can always declare yourself closed or obsolete, a > al MAE-East-FDDI, which I guess would be a fourth case, but rare. > > -Bill > > >
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