Seemingly also a GGC is there: https://ix.tt/cache-services-now-live-at-ttix/ maybe if the cost is low it might be worth it, assuming the incumbent doesn’t make it prohibitive.
Regards, Marty Strong -------------------------------------- Cloudflare - AS13335 Network Engineer ma...@cloudflare.com +44 7584 906 055 smartflare (Skype) https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/13335 > On 11 Jan 2017, at 22:17, Martin Hannigan <hanni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There's also an IXP in Trinidad: > > https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/940 > > [ .. ] > > https://ix.tt/membership/founding-members/ > > That doesn't mean a lot other than there's an IXP with at least Akamai and > Columbus. I know the Akamai cache is there because I put it there. > > I was going to point at CaribNOG, but the MX is null and they're off the air. > > Best, > > -M< > > > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Marty Strong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > wrote: > I believe the ISP is located in Trinidad & Tobago. > > There are five international submarine cables that land on the island: > - SG-SCS > - Americas-II > - ECFS > - Southern Caribbean Fiber > - ECLink > > Of those, 1 go to the closest real interconnectivity hub of Miami, with the > others requiring another pair onwards. > > ECLink lands in Curaçao, which could give access to AMS-IX Caribbean, which > may help with connectivity to content providers, both Akamai and Goole are > live and we are in the process of connecting > (https://cw.ams-ix.net/connected_parties). Pricing however, is probably just > as expensive on that cable than to Miami. > > It would be interesting to hear from the OP the rough pricing for > connectivity to Miami, vs. elsewhere. > > Regards, > Marty Strong > -------------------------------------- > Cloudflare - AS13335 > Network Engineer > ma...@cloudflare.com > +44 7584 906 055 > smartflare (Skype) > > https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/13335 > > > On 11 Jan 2017, at 21:23, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > >>> > >> > >
