Re: [nznog] Something a bit more on-topic: UK firm recons it's got the busiest interchange!

At 09:39 PM 10/1/2004 +1200, Don Stokes wrote:

Andy Linton wrote:

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Wellington is much harder as many, many Citylink customers in Wellington are not part of the peering setup.

Even without worrying about that, the numbers would be pretty interesting. Summing all the ports that correspond to sites peering with the WIX route servers would be make for some interesting numbers too.

I agree the traffic figures would be interesting, but equally as interesting is the size of WIX and/or APE. Some idea of the complexity is given by Total number of announcements 734 Total number of neighbors 120 Comparing that with LiNX shows WIX to be of similar complexity. APE is getting there with around 50 neighbours from memory. Whats interesting about them both is that they are distributed exchanges, open to a wide community and not limited to the ISP/carrier community. Andy indicated that when he mentioned that less than 30% of the APE switch fabric is in the Sky Tower. Elvis left the building about 3 years ago. So while we don't see the traffic volumes that LINX see, we can all learn about managing the complexity. rich in a sleep deprived state again, sorry