When I was at CeBit in Sydney we spoke to several ISP's about peering as we are deploying service to NSW, With the lack of true Deregulation people are screaming for peering. They look at the NZ as been quite ahead of them on this issue. So many ISP's are having to use Co-Lo services because of the peering facilities many of these provide. Otherwise data costs can end up killing you. We are deploying Offsite Backup servers to Australia and we are actually about to talk to Equinix because data costs where going to make it a "to hard" basket project. 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. Best Regards Matthew G Brown Managing Director B & R Holdings LIMITED Nelson, New Zealand Ph: 027 4807731 Http://www.brh.co.nz -----Original Message----- From: Simon Lyall [mailto:simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz] Sent: 04 July 2003 12:28 To: Jeremy Brooking Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] APE Peering <snip> Had a look around Equinix's facility last week as well, very nice (usual data center with lots of racks , cages and the usual solid power, aircon, security etc). They have around half a dozen telco's in there already so it's pretty easy to buy/sell/peer with anybody. The skytower seems to be the closest we have to this here but NZ could probably do with something closer to this size (where you can just buy a dozen or half a dozen racks worht of space) Certainly if I were starting and ISP or other Internet company tomorrow we'd put out stuff straight in there rather than in our own facility. I remmeber a few proposals for such places a couple of years back (Phillip D'Ath was involved with one from memory) but none of them seem to have happened (feel free to correct me). -- 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 _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog