it's also not entirely obvious what the point of having local IXes that serve these kinds of collections of people.
how much inter-ASN traffic is there generally for a city of 100k people, even if they all have 1Gb/s connections? are they all torrenting, accessing local business web pages that are hosted locally, streaming video from local streaming caches? if a local IX is a good place for a llnw, akamai, ggc, netflix cache node, i can see it, but that's about it. t On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, joel jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
