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Re: Coop Peering Fabric??

  • From: Bill Woodcock
  • Date: Mon Aug 11 23:47:30 2008 
      On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Deepak Jain wrote:
    > A "coop", best-effort switch fabric colo'd at a few sites would allow
    > participants to peer off traffic at a price of the order of a single
    > cross-connect (~$500/month per 10G port is possible, maybe less),

$0/month per 10G port is common enough.  

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Why pay someone else to let you use an Ethernet switch?  Presumably if 
you can configure BGP, plugging into an Ethernet switch is well within 
your core competency.

                                -Bill