On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:13:08PM +0200, Daniska Tomas wrote: > how would you guarantee connectivity? >
as you have a lot of ISPs around you it should be really easy to get some connectivity. Very easy: tell some friendly ISP to announce your prefix/AS to outside. > should each isp present should provide bandwidth as part of collocation expenses? What do you mean by this? If some ISP want to donate bw, nice. If not also Ok. > should the opexes be included in the colo bill? Which colo bill? > > and then - this would probably make the colo becoming a connectivity provider, >wouldn't it? > Not necessarily. This much depends on your IXP model. Let's take DE-CIX. There is an association running DE-CIX, but InterXion as colo partner takes cae for a lot of things. If DE-CIX would offer infrastructural services, InterXion still would remain a simple colo provider. Arnold -- Arnold Nipper Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE-CIX, The German Internet Exchange Mobile: +49 172 2650958
