Well, we would have a BGP router in another town. Then get a wave from a transport provider from the other town to the town that equinix or the peering exchange was located at. The cross connect would go from the transport providers Z location to the port on the exchange. I have confirmed that Equinix is willing to sell us a port on the exchange even if we don't have a physical presence there.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:45 AM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:34:14 -0500, Eric Van Tol said: > > but I know at one time they required a physical presence in the in the > IDC > > for an Exchange cross-connect. > > At the risk of being snarky, if somebody doesn't have a presence where do > you connect the other end of the cross-connect cable? :) > > (Note that's different than "I'm in a PoP on the west side of town, and > the logical place to land my uplink is blade 2, port 3 of a router > belonging > to $upstream over on the east side of town" - that's an external connection > not a cross-connect) >