----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Helms" <khe...@zcorum.com>
> On the data side that's certainly possible, but the content guys won't play > ball on a shared L2 network. This actually undermines my position on how > to architect your system, but sharing anything from one of the big content > guys isn't something I've seen them allow as of yet. Organizations like > TVN(Avail now?) or NCTC also require direct agreements and I've never seen > them do anything at an aggregation level. I'm aware of how pissy content providers/transport aggregators are likely to be; I'm been involved in the mythTV project for about 7 years. My point was that if any of them provide on-site equipment as, say, Akamai do (and yes, I realize we're discussing real-time now, not caching), if they have multiple clients in the same place, it's in *their* best interest not to provision multiple racks just because they have contracts with multiple providers; perhaps such racks would connect directly, and mentioning my IX was a red-herring; my apologies for confusing the matter. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274