* wo...@pch.net (Bill Woodcock) [Wed 21 Aug 2013, 21:04 CEST]:
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On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:27 AM, "William F. Maton Sotomayor"
<wma...@ottix.net> wrote:
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My anxiety lies with the future: Given everything that's already
been written, are any of these IXPs capable of becoming
self-sustaining in the future? It's a rhetorical question
applicable to any starting IXP.
Indeed. I think that ISPs who understand their business model well
enough to understand the effect the IXP will have on their
average-per-bit-delivery-cost is essential. I think it's also
essential that they have some basic familiarity with the different
ways IXPs can fail, or fail to thrive, so that they can avoid
mistakes others have made in the past. Over-spending, particularly
on switches, is a huge killer of IXPs. Under-provisioning of
circuits to the IXP is another big mistake. Failure to encourage
local content and hosting is another.
Can you cite a few examples of an IXP going under because of
overspending on switch hardware? You call this a "huge killer"
so there must be dozens you can choose from.
-- Niels.
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