> On Feb 22, 2024, at 19:58, rjmcmahon via Nnagain > <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > Boston University spent $305M on this and it doesn't have an IXP. > https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/center-for-computing-and-data-sciences-photo-essay/ > It's like building a magnificent train station w/o any tracks to/fro the > station.
Most datacenters don’t contain IXPs, and most IXPs aren’t located in
datacenters. It’s very financially advantageous for a neutral multi-tenant
datacenter to contain an IXP, but generally much less advantageous for an IXP
to be located in a datacenter. Datacenters tend to concentrate content, but
that content can be transported to an IXP over just a few strands of fiber.
Whereas eyeballs have to be physically aggregated, and that’s over thousands of
strands, so the average distance to eyeballs matters, whereas the average
distance to content just doesn’t have a significant multiplier on it, and the
content is portable anyway. The optimum location for an IXP is in a city
center, whereas the optimum location for a datacenter (all political, zoning,
and real-estate factors considered) is typically in an industrial park well
outside the city core.
Lots of organizations need a datacenter for their own use, and universities are
typical in that. It doesn’t mean that they’d make sense as locations for an
IXP, unless they’re also aggregating a lot of eyeball fiber for some reason.
-Bill
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