I hate to mention the obvious Tikiri, but that already exsists, they are called APE and WIX. -----Original Message----- From: Tikiri Wicks [mailto:tcwicks(a)maxnet.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:13 a.m. To: Andy Linton; nznog Subject: [nznog] Peering Issue - Perhaps a solution Just a thought here Since most ISP's in NZ seem to be in agreement over this. What if instead of just blowing off steam: Everyone joins hands and sets up two (or more) peering exchanges. One in Auckland and one in Wellington. Then everyone simply drops all peering with Telstra (and / or Telecom if and where relevant) and interconnect through the two (or more) exchange points. The idea is that no one would pay for anything except for the cost of connectiong yourselves to the exchange points. Whether this be via tangent / united network / citylink / some big SDH radio link / microwave / a whole bunch of people running to the exchanges with buckets fileld with packets :) Peering would be voluntary for anyone and on the condition that each provides the same amount of bandwidth under the same conditions from their network to the exchange as they do from teh exchange to their network. That should keep players like Telecom and Telstra from trying to manipulate the market. If Telstra want to peer they would be forced to do so at the same conditions that apply to everyone else Also the costs of interconnectivity between the exchange points could be borne by the members based on some simple equation such as for example a ratio based on the amount of bandwidth with which they connect to the exchanges. Fill in the blanks here ________ Finally I would think that this would be a great opportunity for operators like tangent who have fibre running between the two (or more) hypothetical exchanges. Cheers Tikiri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Linton" <asjl(a)citylink.co.nz> To: "nznog" <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:53 AM Subject: [nznog] Peering at the APE and WIX - was Re: Irked with TelstraClear
I posted some notes yesterday about peering with the APE and WIX route servers and gave a link for application forms which wasn't as useful as it might have been. For reference the forms are at:
http://www.citylink.co.nz/cgi-bin/wixape.pl?tmpl=ape.tmpl http://www.citylink.co.nz/cgi-bin/wixape.pl?tmpl=wix.tmpl
Joe Abley posted some ideas on peering - one obvious one that he hasn't gone the whole distance with is that if many of the small/medium players work together they will be in a better position to negotiate peering with the two large telcos.
Consider the stories here:
http://www.tomsdomain.com/aesop/id17.htm
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