Alastair Johnson wrote:
MCI has not built a new 'peering hub'. They've built a new transit POP that is properly part of their UUNET Transit product, instead of being a mish-mash of Voyager kit that was on UUNET-crack to hold it all up.
I was talking to their peering coordinator for AsiaPac yesterday and they're not sure what to do about NZ and peering, because they have a global standard peering policy (www.mci.com/peering) that nobody in NZ would meet.
At this stage they're just shifting people who are already peering with them at APE onto their AsiaPac AS (AS703) and off the Voyager AS (AS4740) as they are decomissioning the Voyager kit.
Note they've declined to peer with the route servers at APE so you'll need a bilateral agreement with them if you want to exchange routes. I think it would be a win for all of us if MCI would peer with the route servers as each of you wouldn't have to be negotiating a seperate peering arrangement. As the US motto says: E pluribus unum - out of many, one!