On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Randy Bush wrote:
and i would add carrier neutrality, i can haul fiber from anyone into the exchange. this is pretty critical in the exchanges where i have played.
Facility neutrality especially. If the IXP is inside a non-neutral DC, it and its peers are always under constant threat of being squeezed out or shutdown by any number of circumstances. If the co-lo business were separate from the facility business, it may be a better environment since the IXP could convince the facility to host it, which the co-lo business could then be attracted to. All depends on the circumstances and environment.
wfms
