On Wed, 15 May 2013 11:46:36 -0400, Jean-Francois Mezei said: > Not all ISPs are fortunate enough to be in a town where there is an > active exchange with Netflix/Akamai/Google presence. > > For instance, Montréal just recently oopened a peering exchange. While > this will eventually allow local ISPs to peer with the big content > providers, until this happens, small ISPs have to get that content via > paid transit links.
AS1312 isn't particularly large (2 /16s, 30K students, 8K fac/staff), and Akamai was more than willing to drop a cache unit in our machine room. And Google was happy to meet us at the upstream end of our link to the outside world - but I half-suspect that was just because we make their IPv6 stats look good :)
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