On 8/23/2013 1:30 PM, Jacques Latour wrote: > Bill, not true. > > Following on our vision for Canada to have an IXP in every major city, > specifically for Calgary, CIRA worked with CYBERA to organize a town hall > meeting in Calgary, on September 14, 2013. At the meeting, we had interested > members of the community (Content delivery, ISP, government, R&E, CIRA, > others) together to start the development of a new IXP in Calgary. > > Cybera being local, they took the lead in working with the community members > in setting up governance, technical architecture, location, etc... CIRA > actively participated in the various committees. > > CIRA is planning the deployment of equipment for the IXP, a .ca DNS Anycast > stack, NTP servers and space for M-Lab nodes. We also work with PCH to have > a PCH anycast stack installed in Calgary. We talked to Akamai and Google to > be part of the Calgary IXP. HE actually did build to Data Hive (Preferred > data center in Calgary). Doing our part in trying to get as much content, > ISP, eyeballs, core internet services to be present at IXP. The AlbertaIX is > cash poor at that moment in time so CIRA was looking at options to fund > equipment or provide start-up grants, nothing was done up to now with respect > to providing equipment or funds. > > Note: CIRA's job is not to go in and put a switch and leave. CIRA works with > the community to get the IXP up and running. We have criteria to > participate, the IXP must be a member based, vendor neutral non-profit > organization with a viable trusted community to operate and sustain an IXP. > CIRA is acting as a catalyst, not a doer. The community is the doer. Ask the > people in Winnipeg www.mbix.ca and Montreal qix.ca . We are planning the > launch of mbix this September as well. This is an example where the IXP > build was successful. > > Back to Calgary, something special occurred, while we were all working on > setting up AlbertaIX (we started fast but the pace slowed down > significantly), a new IXP came to 'life' YYCIX in Data Hive, yycix.ca. Long > story short, CIRA is waiting for things to settle before we continue > providing more support and invest in deployment our .CA infrastructure. When > the "dust" settles, we will deploy our .ca infrastructure and be a member of > the communities (peer). > > There's a chance we're going to have two IXPs in Calgary, hopefully they > would be in the same data center to leverage our investment, if we have two, > then it's going to make it confusing for the new potential peers to pick the > right one or both. > > All in all, CIRA's objective was to have 1 IXP in Calgary, we have one now, > perhaps 2 in the future, so mission accomplished. It's up to the community > to get their act together (no pun intended), and if they need our help, then > we're there to help with governance, funding, technical expertise, etc... >
What is the purpose of creating a second IXP in the same colo space in Calgary? From what I can gather YYCIX is giving away the first gigport for now. Unless CIRA is negotiating cheap transport/colospace/power/cross connects in Datahive, what is the point?
