Thank you very much everyone for so many private and public responses. We've setup a smaller and focused discussion group for the parties interested in discussing Puerto Rico Internet Exchange Project. You can subscribe here https://groups.google.com/a/puertorico-ix.com . I have received some tremendous private support to proceed with this project and we will do so, trying our best.
mehmet On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 12:29 AM Frank Habicht <ge...@geier.ne.tz> wrote: > Hi, > > On 14/09/2018 16:08, Sander Steffann wrote: > >> In general an IX only makes sense when there are local resources to > >> exchange. It doesn’t seem like PR has a lot of, if any, content > >> providers of its own, so most consumer content is coming from > >> offshore anyway. > > > > This can also work the other way: once there is a local IXP, it can > > open opportunities for local content providers. > > > > Cheers, Sander > > I'd also think that if there is sufficient local motivation, the local > guys should get something started for their own purposes. > > And that would maybe not immediately include "big content", but it would > keep their own domestic traffic local. So even if it's not lots of > Gigabits immediately, even if the latency "penalty" without local > peering isn't that big, it would still cost them something to pass > traffic through the water, and a local IXP should be cheaper if run with > low overhead... > > Establishing an "aggregation point" would be the first step, and then > outsiders can see what's possible there. > > Frank > not knowing much about the specific environment >
