While there is no difference from a technology perspective,
there's also no benefit to be gained by interconnecting large
networks at a public (as opposed to private) interconnects.
Sure there is. Running one larger interconnect has the potential to
be much less expensive and easier to run than many smaller ones.
Economy of scale...
While there is no difference from a technology perspective,
> there's also no benefit to be gained by interconnecting large
> networks at a public (as opposed to private) interconnects.
Sure there is. Running one larger interconnect has the potential to
be much less expensive and easier to run than many smaller ones.
Economy of scale...
That's simply a fallacy. One larger interconnect assumes that the
cost of aggregate bandwidth scales linearly, when it fact it's clearly
super-linear and may well be exponential. This becomes worse as supporting
the aggregate bandwidth exceeds commodity media technology.
Tony
Perhaps from the perspective of a NAP operator, maybe.
Large interconnects like MAE-East does not have better scaling characteristics
then private interconnects, both from infrastructure and staff resources point
of view.
-dorian