There was some discussion over the last couple of years with the NZNOG community at conferences and on the mailing list about Citylink doing a SDN based IX. This was to include with it Citylink releasing statistics of the aggregated traffic over their IX - a measure (published by most IXs) that many use to decide if it's worth connecting to an IX.

Given the public nature of this discussion so far, and the fact that it's died off, can a representative of Citylink please confirm to the list;

1/ Is there an intention to move to some sort of SDN driven IX still, and if so what the timeframe for this will be? If this project has been abandoned, how will the IXs be developed in place of this project?

2/ Do they have any intention to publish an aggregated traffic on their IXs, and if so what the timeframe for this will be?

I am sure many of us in the peering community will be eager to hear the answers to these questions....

Cheers,

Hoff