> On Jun 5, 2018, at 11:47 AM, Mehmet Akcin <meh...@akcin.net> wrote: > > thank you very much to so many people who have reached out providing leads > , made introductions and followed up offering help. > > I wanted to update the list with the progress we have made so far. > > 1) We've identified several datacenter facilities where networks are > commonly present and diverse from each other with some additional network > assets. We will soon be touring these facilities. > 2) We've talked to backbone and transit providers and got incredible deals > for this market & caribbean > 3) We've engaged few "core" Content networks and asked them to join our > initiative (Great interest here but we need more.) > 4) Last but not least, we need some people on the island for bootstrapping > and ongoing support of the IX and the members (this is a challenge, I will > personally work on resolving by spending 2 weeks in August in Puerto Rico > both searching & interviewing candidates. > 5) We were offered some hardware donations but they are fairly old
PCH is always willing to donate new equipment to support any IXP. We’re
generally giving out 100G-capable switches for IXPs now.
-Bill
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