North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Coop Peering Fabric??
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:15:49PM -0400, 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), > private-VLANs all-around, or to only-mutually approved peers (e.g. via > an automated web interface, prior art) to avoid many of the /old/ > issues. No requirement for multi-lateral peering. You could peer, sell > transit, buy transit, multicast, etc. This has been working for years at http://www.torix.net , and on a smaller scale at http://www.ottix.net -- Jim Mercer [email protected] +971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
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