The challenges are almost certainly economics related, at the lack of competition and high costs for layer 1/2 transport from his Caribbean island to Miami. Via whatever submarine cables exist that are controlled by larger ILEC type entities/telcos. Or satellite (whether geostationary transponder capacity or o3b).
Depending on what island we're talking about, the $$$$$/month for a single 1GbE or 10GbE layer 2 transport service from $ISLAND to Miami will be very high compared to what a network operator in the US 48 states is accustomed to paying. On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Richard Hicks <richard.hi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know the the Caribbean Internet Exchanges market. Are any worth > peering at versus buying additional L2 bandwidth to Miami? > > https://cw.ams-ix.net/ > http://www.ocix.net/ocix/ > > Rick > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Keenan Singh <keenansi...@airlinktt.net> > wrote: > > > Hi Guys > > > > We are an ISP in the Caribbean, and are faced with extremely high > Bandwidth > > costs, compared to the US, we currently use Peer App for Caching however > > with most services now moving to HTTPS the cache is proving to be less > and > > less effective. We are currently looking at any way we can save on > > Bandwidth or to be more Efficient with the Bandwidth we currently have. > We > > do have a Layer 2 Circuit between the Island and Miami, I am seeing there > > are WAN Accelerators where they would put a Server on either end and sort > > of Compress and decompress the Traffic before it goes over the Layer 2, I > > have never used this before, has any one here used anything like this, > what > > results would I be able to expect for ISP Traffic? > > > > If not any ideas on Bandwidth Savings, or being more Efficient with want > we > > currently. > > > > Many thanks for any Help > > > > Keenan > > >
