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

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 [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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