Congrats to St Louis! I put in about 40 racks for Clearwire a few years back and enjoyed the city, even if it was winter.
-- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, +1 (360) 474-7474 On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > It is a partnership and I may not be the most qualified to speak on the > terms of the partnership. However, the non-commercial side is > not-for-profit, but the commercial side is fully commercial. > > While building out our IX brand, of those that have been able to have a > rational discussion about their anti-commercial IX position, almost all of > them (or maybe even all of them) weren't really anti-commercial. They were > just anti-800-lb-gorilla. They didn't hate the independent building out > IXes in markets that maybe never had a functional IX, but surely didn't > have one now. They hated Equinix, Coresite, etc. They just wanted someone > that wasn't going to be a jerk to them. > > We don't have any aspirations to get to Equinix size. We know we're going > to small time places and that we'll only ever have small time IXes in the > big picture. The building we started at in Indy only advertises something > like 20 or 30 networks in the building. Now we've grown to other buildings > and they aren't going to list every Tom, Dick and Harry, but it's not a 300 > network market. We'll leave that to AMS-IX, DE-CIX, Megaport, etc. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ken Chase" <m...@sizone.org> > To: "NANOG ???[nanog@nanog.org]???" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 6:36:20 PM > Subject: Re: St. Louis IX Launch > > congrats! > > I am curious, is the IX non-for-profit as well? The wikipedia entry for > IX's > doenst indicate which IX's are non-profit. Im curious as to the prevalence > and size (as well as the relative successes) of such IX's vs for profit > models > (equinix etc). > > /kc > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 06:30:45PM -0600, Mike Hammett said: > >If you know someone that may be interested, we have a launch event later > this week for our St. Louis IX. St. Louis is a bit different than our > existing market in that we've partnered with a local non-profit that will > be focusing on non-commercial Internet aspects. These sorts of things are > innovation neighborhoods, IoT, healthcare, education, public safety, etc. > They may (or may not) be the big volume things we're used to, but they need > local, low-latency connectivity just as much. > > > >https://www.eventbrite.com/e/st-louis-regional-internet- > exchange-preview-tickets-30329718003?aff=NANOG > > > > > > > > > >----- > >Mike Hammett > >Intelligent Computing Solutions > > > >Midwest Internet Exchange > > > >The Brothers WISP > > > > -- > Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 > Toronto Canada > Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 > Front St. W. > >