On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:52:31AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> What I've found interesting is the cost of circuits seem to not be
> distance-sensitive. I think this will contribute to mega-regional peering
> for the foreseeable future.
>
> (ie: dc, sj, dfw, chi, nyc, etcbble devices in those locations, while they
> were big and had traffic, the gear for running bgp just wasn't there.
>
> - Jared
well - no BGP, != an ISP :)
this sounds very much like the folks who wanted to put up a south asian
IX in guam.
lots and lots of fiber pairs landed there, but it was just repeaterd
and pushed back
into the water. No kit for peering there.
(other problems w/ Guam left as an academic eercise)
/bill
