Fwd: [CAnet - news] Importance of carrier neutral peering facilities for small communities

[Todd Boyle]

What is the political structure around the peering point(s)
in the Seattle area?   I see two needs: (1) a report on how
it works today, and (2) a newsletter or list to keep up on any
changes or issues at the Westin or other peering points,
TOdd

>From: "Bill St.Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud at canarie.ca>
>To: <news at canarie.ca>
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:12:51 -0400
>Subject: [CAnet - news] Importance of carrier neutral peering facilities for
>         small communities
>
>  [One of the interesting features of the New Zealand research network KAREN
>(Kiwi Advanced Research Education Network) is the mandated requirement to
>deploy carrier neutral peering points at all the KAREN network nodes in
>towns and cities throughout NZ.  This is similar in concept to the BCnet
>"transit exchanges"  and FirstMile "peering exchanges".  In big cities there
>may be several carrier neutral exchange points such as Amsterdam Internet
>Exchange point as further described below. But in smaller communities it is
>a much tougher proposition and this is where research networks like KAREN,
>BCnet and others can play a critical role in fostering such facilities.
>Carrier neutral peering points enable smaller local ISPs and content
>providers to reach their customers, as well as reduce costs of back hauling
>traffic to major urban centers. It also easily allows the interconnection of
>wireless and other Internet delivery service mechanism to be deployed in the
>community. Thanks to Samuel K Lam for the Reuters article. Some excerpts --
>BSA]
>
>KAREN
>http://www.reannz.co.nz/home/
>
>BCnet Transit Exchanges
>http://www.bc.net/advanced_networks/pdf/transit_exchanges(2).pdf#search=%22B
>Cnet%20transit%20exchange%22
>
>FirstMile Peering exchnages
>http://www.firstmile.us/events/conf/spr06/agenda.php
>
>Amsterdam Internet Exchange
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/column_pluggedin_dc
>
>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam has the world's busiest Internet exchange,
>thanks to nuclear physicists and mathematicians who in the 1980s connected
>their network needs with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be
>free.
>
>The popularity of the AMS-IX. the official name of the exchange, is the
>result of a liberal foundation which has created a place where ISPs can do
>business any way they like.
>
>It shares this spirit with the designers of the Internet who decided that
>all data packets were created equal, and with Tim Berners-Lee who developed
>the World Wide Web at the Swiss particle physics lab
>CERN as a universal and neutral platform.
>
>The fact that Amsterdam has one of the three root servers outside the United
>States is not lost on local politicians, including the former Dutch Prime
>Minister Wim Kok, who have come to this room to "touch the Internet" by
>placing their palm on the computer's casing. During rush hour, 170 Gigabits
>of data per second -- the equivalent of over 30 compact disks -- travel
>through the exchange.
>
>Around 250 Internet providers from around the world are bunched together in
>AMS-IX. Its closest competitor is the London Internet Exchange LINX.
>
>Another reason the exchange is a success is that providers can connect their
>networks directly, so-called peering, to save time and cost.
>
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