Mehmet,

My opinion to you (and I have no network in the Carribbean or interest in it 
other than a purely academic and technical exercise)  would be that you guys go 
ahead and start, even if you just initially split the cost of the switch and 
interfaces to peer among yourselves. Once you get a base established of a lot 
of routes available, it may give you better “clout” for getting some larger 
players to connect to your IX or at least help sponsor an extension over 
transport to a Miami reach?

Just thinking aloud.


James W. Breeden
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From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Mehmet Akcin
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 3:27 PM
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

It has been little over a year and we have been working on launching an 
internet exchange in puerto rico but of course hurricane and other things got 
in the way of achieving this.

We now have identified what we believe the right location (most of the isp’s 
have presence in this location) backbone/ip transit connectivity, local team to 
provide onsite support.

Having said that We have been engaged with several content delivery networks, 
OTTs but general feedback was that Puerto Rico was not on their radar for 2018 
hence delayed launch. Now we are talking to same players about 2019 but general 
answer seemed like people were satisfied enough to serve Puerto Rico from Miami.

Perhaps we are talking to really big CDNs, OTTs and we should engage 
differently however the level of interest is very low and I really don’t want 
to “build and they will come” again ;-)

Bottom line is, if there was an IXP in Puerto Rico similar to ones in Florida, 
I am trying to understand who would actually deploy (just speak to your company 
only please) because most of my assumptions were proven wrong ;-)

I guess I want to ask two questions, given its location in caribbean, does 
Puerto Rico need an internet exchange point? Would you join it?(it will be a 
membership based IXP where members share cost)

Mehmet

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:27 AM Mehmet Akcin 
<meh...@akcin.net<mailto:meh...@akcin.net>> wrote:
Hey there!

... ok this time I am not going to call it PRIX ;) well name doesn't matter 
really. Nearly 13 years ago I have attempted to start Puerto rico Internet 
exchange in San Juan. I have lived there over 5 years and i just wanted to 
really watch videos faster. The project somewhat died when i moved to LA but 
now there are few interested party to start an internet exchange in Puerto 
rico. The jsland historically had one of the slowest broadband/internet 
services which seemed to have improved in recent years however as of 2017 there 
still is not an IX in Puerto rico.

We , 3-4 internet engineers (on island and remote) , want to look into relaunch 
of this IX and hopefully find a way to keep local traffic exchanged at high 
speeds and low cost. We need expertise, and people who want to help any way 
they can.

We are trying to make this IX a not-for-profit one and we are looking at 
opeeating models to adapt which has worked incredibly well like Seattle IX.

We are hoping the relaunch to happen sometime in 2018. Thanks in advance hope 
to share more info and traffic data sometime , soon. Watch this space!

Mehmet
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