On 10/12/15 1:57 AM, Henrik Thostrup Jensen wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, Jeremy Austin wrote: > >> Juneau, I'm not so surprised; how many other cities that small and >> isolated >> have IXes? I'm curious. It's an interesting prospect, at least for some >> value of $location. > > Several small cities in Sweden have IXes. Not sure than any of them are > quite as small as Juneau, but some (Borås, Luleå, Sundsvall) are sub > 100k people, and other cities (Umeå, Uppsala) are just over 100k > inhabitants. Umeå and Luleå are releativly isolated - at least by > European standards. > > Most of these are probably just a switch or two, and are probably there > to provide better quality of service, and not because it makes for a > good business.
Sweden's IX infrastructure is not entirely unique but are certainly borne out of a particular set of circumstances and public private partnerships that don't generally exist elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netnod > > Best regards, Henrik > > Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net> > Software Developer, NORDUnet >
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