Anyone give me an idea of what sort of traffic passes to (and hopefully
thru!) their MAE-LA peers? It's hard to tell whether anyone cares about
this NAP or not, and there appears to be significantly less potential
peering partners connected to it. Makes for a tough ROI argument when
compared to the other NAPs. While I realize some of this might be a
critical mass issue, MAE-LA seems to have been fairly stagnant for several
years now.
While we're at it, have any input on PacBell's NAP? 
BTW: Anyone considering connecting to Telehouse's 6IIX IPv6 exchange points
at this point? They are collocated inside with NYIIX and LAIIX.
Thanks!
-jr
* Troy Davis <troy@nack.net> [20010225 00:48]:
Per www.mae.net, MFS isn't accepting new peers at MAE-LA or MAE-Houston.
Via Telehouse's LAIIX <URL:http://www.laiix.net/> it is possible to gain
access to MAE-LA connected peers still. Or, at least, that is the claim.
Though, that is a good point against worrying about going into MAE-LA I
suppose, since more potential peers will be discouraged and unlikely to
join.
Is the significance of MAE-LA so small that someone with a presence at
all of the other major NAPs (MAE-West, MAE-East, AADS, PacBell-NAP,
Sprint-NAP, PAIX) can safely ignore it?
-jr
Via Telehouse's LAIIX <URL:http://www.laiix.net/> it is possible to gain
> access to MAE-LA connected peers still.
Like MAE-West and NASA-AMES, MAE-LA is split between One Wilshire and 2676
Admiralty Way, and the latter is under USC/ISI management. As in San
Jose, serious participants have never been on the MFS side of the
exchange. I prefer my exchanges stable.
-Bill
MAE-LA has never been very hot. Same with NYIIX. PAIX in SFR, MAE-West, and
PacBell are all hotter, although PacBell seems to be in decline. In the NY
area, 111 8th ave is a far better spot than 25 Broad, which is where NYIIX
is located.
- Daniel Golding
I was under the impression that this was going to be transitioned out (at
least that is what my WorldCom rep told me about a year ago)...
On Feb 25, 2001 Josh Richards spake:
There are two parts to the exchange, known as MAE-LA to some. There is
the MFS part (MAE-LA) and the LAAP. The LAAP is run by USC/ISI and was
setup by Jon Postel several years before he passed away. In the last 18
months USC has setup a dark fiber based sites that make up the LAAP
exchange. Today we (USC) has space in 1 wilshire and we installed a
Foundry box with Gb and 100 meg ethernet ports. We used the dark fiber
to provision 3 Gb ethernets to the USC campus and then from there to
USC/ISI. If someone wishes to join the exchange we can attach them at
any of those sites. We have space for members at the USC campus and ISI,
at 1 wilshire people usually are there already and we have a cage with
our switch equipment. We will add capacity as needed to keep the
exchange viable.
Today the LAAP is growing and we are adding regional ISPs, content
providers, some larger ISPs and most recently the CALREN-2 network,
which now includes all UC and CSU campuses plus USC, Caltech, JPL and
Stanford. In the near future it will also include all school districts
in California. We also can provision some private ATM connections and
private VLANs for those who want to do private peering and are in 1
wilshire complex.
The web page for the LAAP is www.laap.net
Jim Pepin
CTO USC Information Services Division
Director Center for High Performance Computing and Communications
USC/ISI
Is there a link to LAAP's aggregate usage statistics?
thanks,
Deepak Jain
AiNET
'very hot' is relative.
NYIIX has twice as many participants as MAE-LA, of which nearly all are
more interesting, and is moving > 1/3 gb/s these days.
Is it the biggest NAP in the world, hell no.. However, it is one of the
more successful regionals.
Interestingly, the only participant I can remeber who made a commitment on
joining the NY-IIX and then not was Netrail...