On 12/08/17 16:53, Yosem Companys wrote: > From: *Mehmet Akcin* <meh...@akcin.net <mailto:meh...@akcin.net>> > > 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! >
Hi Mehmet, You may be interested to what community networks do, for instance the B4RN model in Scotland, or the Guifi model. You can find more details here: - https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08978 (a paper describing the distributed IX by B4RN) - the reports from the netCommons project, especially D1.2 and D1.3 that deal with existent networks and their organization: https://netcommons.eu/?q=content/deliverables-page best, leonardo. > Mehmet > > > > -- Leonardo Maccari, Assistant Professor @DISI, University of Trento Tel: +39 0461 285323, www.disi.unitn.it/~maccari, gpg ID: AABE2BD7
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