*nods* I've looked at the Any2 Exchange here in Chicago. Unfortunately they only have like 3 participants.
Despite their lower participant numbers, I'm looking to join non-Equinix exchanges here in Chicago (Any2 and ChicagoIX). The place I get colo, etc. from in 350 E. Cermak offers a free 100 meg connection to ChicagoIX if you're a colo customer and most of the members are on their route server. Just for general knowledge, how do some of the others relate on price compared to Equinix (assuming cheaper) and Any2 (assuming around the same)? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:05 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] CDN peering > Microsoft is pretty open to peering. Additionally, they participate in > Any2Easy (http://www.crgwest.com/Any2Exchange/any2easy.html), which is > a multi-lateral peering service at CRG West facilities. If you don't > have a lot of traffic multi-lateral peering is a must as it will get > you connected to more networks than you could normally qualify for. > > Again, I think you'll find that unless you are doing 100s of megs > peering is not economical. Transit is really cheap now. > > -Matt > > On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > >> Matt does have a little bigger network than a lot of us. >> >> ;-) >> >> https://www.peeringdb.com/private/participant_view.php?id=724 >> >> How'd you get the Microsoft peer and what all sits on that? I know >> their >> XBox downloads are on Limelight, but perhaps their others are on >> their own >> AS. >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:52 AM >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] CDN peering >> >>> We peer with every major content network. Most have open peering >>> policies that require little to get a peering relationship. Some >>> require specific amounts of traffic and/or multiple geographically >>> diverse connections. >>> >>> Before you get your hopes up though I will warn you that connecting >>> to >>> peering fabrics has gotten expensive, while the price of transit has >>> gotten cheap. For example, the most important peering fabric in the >>> US >>> is at Equinix Ashburn. Last quote I saw for peering ports was $1,500 >>> for 100Mbps and $3,000 for 1Gbps. Forgetting all the costs associated >>> with getting into Ashburn, you would need 100Mbps of peer traffic >>> just >>> to get the cost of the peer traffic down to $15 per meg, which is >>> higher than most carriers will sell you a 100Mbps of transit at >>> Ashburn. In other words, unless you are doing 100s of megs of peering >>> traffic, transit is cheaper. >>> >>> -Matt >>> >>> On Dec 8, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Patrick Shoemaker wrote: >>> >>>> With all the talk of Netflix and other bandwidth-intensive streaming >>>> applications that are on the horizon, has anyone here looked into >>>> peering with any of the major CDNs to reduce transit costs? I seem >>>> to >>>> remember hearing that Akamai would colo a box within an ISP's >>>> network at >>>> no cost to the ISP if there was enough (bandwidth) demand. Anyone >>>> know >>>> if Limelight will do something similar? I'm guessing that most of us >>>> are >>>> not big enough for this to be financially feasible, but for those >>>> who >>>> are, it seems that there could be some major savings. My 100% >>>> business >>>> customer base tends to use a lot of bandwidth from Youtube and >>>> streaming >>>> radio. A direct connection to Limelight would cut down on transit >>>> costs >>>> big time. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Patrick Shoemaker >>>> Vector Data Systems LLC >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> office: (301) 358-1690 x36 >>>> http://www.vectordatasystems.com >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> WISPA Wants You! 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