AW: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-25 Thread Gunther Stammwitz
Without getting in the middle of the eternal contest over who is better, LINX or AMS-IX (each has its own advantages and disadvantages), the AMS-IX website says 165Gbps, the LINX website says 95Gbps (actual publicly switched traffic), and the DECIX website says 71Gbps. Some portion of

Re: AW: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: Without getting in the middle of the eternal contest over who is better, LINX or AMS-IX (each has its own advantages and disadvantages), the AMS-IX website says 165Gbps, the LINX website says 95Gbps (actual publicly switched traffic), and

Re: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-25 Thread Niels Bakker
On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: I've just been in touch with a colleague of mine and he has to add the following: Hey a biased analysis, IIRC AMS-IX allows all kind of traffic including upstream, not only peering traffic. DE-CIX is peering only. I assume the CIXes in US

Re: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 matthew zeier wrote: Does it simply provide an easy way to privately connect to transit and peers? Or can I also go crazy and peer with anyone who wants to peer (like in the olden day!) ? EU peering is very different from US peering (as many

Re: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread Ian Mason
On 23 Aug 2006, at 22:46, matthew zeier wrote: (I know little about AMS-IX and am still waiting for someone from there to get back to me...) My NA bandwidth right now is ~200Mbps and about half of that appears to be EU destined. I'm opening an EU POP soon and am trying to figure

AW: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread Gunther Stammwitz
Costs for leased lines from the states to either Linx, Ams-Ix or DE-Cix are all more or less the same. You should chose the ixp from you can benefit most. DE-Cix has done a lot in the past few months to attract more members from eastern Europe. Because of its position just in the middle of Europe

Re: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:33:17PM +0200, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: Costs for leased lines from the states to either Linx, Ams-Ix or DE-Cix are all more or less the same. You should chose the ixp from you can benefit most. DE-Cix has done a lot in the past few months to attract more members

Re: AW: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: Exchange / Traffic on public exchange vlan / Number of members LINX: ~ 77 Gbps / 210 members AMS-IX: ???* Gbps / 244 members DE-CIX: 51 Gbps / 184 members I'm curious if any US based IXs exceed 100Gbps. Or has Amsterdam and London become the

Re: AW: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:56:56AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: Exchange / Traffic on public exchange vlan / Number of members LINX: ~ 77 Gbps / 210 members AMS-IX: ???* Gbps / 244 members DE-CIX: 51 Gbps / 184 members I'm curious if any

ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-23 Thread matthew zeier
(I know little about AMS-IX and am still waiting for someone from there to get back to me...) My NA bandwidth right now is ~200Mbps and about half of that appears to be EU destined. I'm opening an EU POP soon and am trying to figure out what sort of value AMS-IX would give me. Does it

Re: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, matthew zeier wrote: Does it simply provide an easy way to privately connect to transit and peers? Or can I also go crazy and peer with anyone who wants to peer (like in the olden day!) ? There are plenty of ISPs both at AMSIX and LINX and they're mostly very happy to