On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:06 +1200, Stewart Fleming wrote:
Oh, and on your point about universities, I think you will find that most (all?) of them already peer. UoA, which is far-and-away the largest university in the country, certainly peers at APE.
Help me out here. What incentives can I (as operator of a local exchange) now offer to a University to convince it that peering locally is a Good Idea when they have KAREN? At various times, I've offered the University Of Eastern Venezuela (*) peering for a) $XXX/monthly (**), and b) the cost of a piece of patch cord, so far without takers. I think I might have to pay them before the chicken/egg dichotomy gets resolved ("We'll peer if everyone else does"; Everyone Else says "We'll peer if they do".)...
Massey University are peering at WIX and PNIX, not APE as the cost to get across from the North Shore was more than we were willing to pay. Other than Inspire, I think we are still the only player on PNIX but hoped that by being there, we might encourage others in PN to peer also. In the case of WIX, there are lots of other parties in Wellington that peer and in the spirit of providing a better service between them and us than their Internet connection which may well be small, we felt it was an appropriate environment to support.