Re: What is a regional exchange point?

Hello All ....



It sounds like most of the technical aspects of REP's are being covered.
I would like to start a similar thread about what is a REP, but from a
business perspective.

Remember, for REPs to be fully utilized they must be able to speak
to a wider (and paying ) audience, the enterprise, municipal government and
Universities.
Not just service providers as we tend to see in the MAE model.

Who direct connects to a REP :

Municipal government, Universities and education, enterprise, application
service providers
and service providers.

>From a business perspective :

1). A REP forms the core of a Metropolitan Internet
2). A Metropolitan Internet provides transport for applications that are
Regional.
3). Services is the name of the game, these would be supplied by ASP's not
necessarily the REP operator.

Regional Applications include :

1). Access to multiple Internet 1 providers  ( cost reduction )
2). Access to multiple I2 routes. ( transport diversity )
3). Access to regional video distribution
    -Local University distance learning
    -Local video conferencing
4). Regional disaster recovery ( public archival storage )
5). Regional virus protection
6). A gateway for voice softswitch access ( a place for all that Cisco IP
phone traffic to go to )
7). Local higher speed content services
8). HIPAA compliance via a truly survivable geographically diverse
architecture

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jere Retzer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [REPforum] What is a regional exchange point?


> I think there is a continuum from local to global IP exchanges with
regional somewhere in the middle. Local exchanges mainly peer to exchange
local traffic in order to keep local bits local and save transit. Global
exchanges mainly peer to tie together the global Internet. Regional
exchanges may provide both local peering as well as access to transit, and a
convenient location for the major networks to peer with one another.
>
> Jere
>