RE: [REPForum] Article about New Mexico's new IX and Co-OP

sounds like a perfect reason to start getting Maine
providers and users together and build an IX.

You will want both service and content providers along
with end-user orgs like newspapers, city/state networks,
educational networks, etc.  IX ME Baby! :)

Look at what cheap layer two telco services are available
state wide, eg is there ATM or Frame available to everyone
or a large part of everyone ?  Whats the cost to get to that
cloud, etc

John Brown
IXNM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric 
> Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 8:24 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [REPForum] Article about New Mexico's new IX and Co-OP 
> 
> 
> > For RURAL provides I think the "rules of the game" are much 
> different 
> > than the MSA based providers.  We in the rural markets must 
> find ways 
> > to work co-operatively in order to improve connectivity to our 
> > customers.
> 
> Portland (Maine) may look like part of the MSA set of clouds, 
> but we are the edge. To get traffic between one side of 
> Portland and another (me@home to me@shop), my packets are 
> going to Boston and New York on ISP A's upstream, to hit an 
> IX, and come back on ISP B's upstream. When we push the leafs 
> out for interactive traffic to our 56kb edges, for 
> intra-Maine traffic (Maine located servers), this is an 
> obvious non-win for all Maine-serving dialup ISP.
> 
> To get from any point in Maine, to any other point in Maine, 
> you must first go to Boston, or New York. Classical Maine 
> humor, you can't get there from here.
> 
> Eric
>