On 2010-04-27 at 13:13 -0500, Jeremy Charles wrote: > I want to target cities that act as the major telecom/transit hubs. I > have a decent feel for where these are in the USA, but I haven't the > first clue on how to figure that out for that part of the world. For > example, Amsterdam is the only one that comes to mind. > > Does anyone have clues you can offer? My Google-fu is not working out well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_points_by_size I'm out of the EU ISP game, by three+ years, so my knowledge is dated at best. Bear that in mind ... AMS-IX gets you much of Western Europe tolerably well, until you try to head through Germany and into Eastern Europe. LINX gets you all of the UK market and also gets much of Western Europe. If you're US-based and expanding in the EU, then if there's a strong weight towards the UK then LINX before AMS-IX, otherwise the reverse. I'm not sure if French ISPs ended up being better connected to LINX than to AMS-IX. I believe that hitting DE-CIX gets you towards much of the nearer parts of Eastern Europe too, but am not sure. Netnod gets you Scandinavia. Beyond those four, you need to talk to a network engineer who is current and have stats on where your users are. -Phil _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
