On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Matthew G Brown wrote:
Anyone know what is happening with the Perth Peering Exchange? I heard about it a year ago and ive never heard it mentioned since.? I am of the understanding its been running for a while well.
WAIX is going pretty good from all accounts. They claim to be the largest peering exchange in the southern hemesphere which might be true (I've had no luck getting access for graphs of APE so I don't know how much traffic it does in aggregate). In Australia the main options are PipeNetworks in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, WAIX in Perth and Equinix in Sydney. Anything else is AFAIK pretty much a waste of time. Interstate data also costs the earth (at least if you are buying less than a STM-1 worth). We won't mention the Big 4. I was talking with the guys at WAIX about maybe getting various people to buy a part share in a link from WAIX to Sydney (probably equinix). Someone also suggested maybe doing the same between APE and Sydney as well if people know of options for cheap Transtasman bandwidth (hint hint). -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz Ihug Ltd, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz