On 5 Nov 2024, at 16:56, Tom Beecher wrote: >> Especially so if a few of the large content providers continue to pull >> back from route servers and such. > Content providers aren't leaving IXP's completely. They're still there, > still paying monthly for ports and XCs. Still doing bilateral peering over > the IX. There's no revenue hit to an IXP for a CDN to de-peer off the route > servers.
Hi Tom, I don’t really think your last statement is true. UK, and London in particular, is quite a dynamic market. At LONAP we see plenty of networks connect and see an immediate “quick win” of traffic by connection to our route-servers, where adoption among the membership is something like 85-90%. If an operator decides to replace those RS sessions with a (often intractable) portal to request bilateral sessions - or worse, email - that immediate traffic benefit is lost. That can affect the value the IXP provides to its members. Will
