> On Feb 24, 2024, at 20:30, Robert McMahon via Nnagain > <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: >> On Feb 24, 2024, at 4:05 AM, Fearghas Mckay <fearg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 22 Feb 2024, at 18:58, rjmcmahon via Nnagain >>> <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: >>> Boston University spent $305M on this and it doesn't have an IXP. >> There are two well established distinct IX in the metro already - why would >> you need a third that is not at an interconnection site ? > For education and modeling. Students used to run on campus radio stations as > an example. A modern world requires understanding things like IXPs.
That’s a good point. When we do IXP formation workshops, if there are very
many ASes which haven’t peered before, we do get the whole thing up and running
on a meeting-room table in a classroom sort of situation, before trying to do
it in production. And we’ve done joint projects between IXPs and departments
of education. So this is a very good reason for a university to host a
small-scale or lab IXP. But it’s also a good reason to forge a relationship
with nearby production IXPs, such that student projects can get access to
no-cost local bandwidth, etc.
Students getting access to distance-insensitive bandwidth at universities
causes a lot of startups to crash-and-burn when they start to scale up and find
out that the Internet isn’t flat, it just looks that way when you’re buying
small amounts at retail.
-Bill
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