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<div>The PIPE IX in Adelaide (the middle of Australia) had 97% of the routes that were available at all the other bigger interstate IXes in around 2008/2009. Very little value at the time in paying for fat intercapital links when you're going to be shifting
less than 10Mbps per interstate IX off of your transit.</div>
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<div>In our case most of our content is sitting in Melbourne. I certainly cannot get 97% of the routes that I can get in Sydney down here in Melbourne via public exchanges. Due to that we push a lot of traffic via Sydney to return back to Melbourne to some
home DSL line. At least an additional 15ms RTT and a waste of resources on our and the recipients network. If you or your upstreams in Adelaide follow the same principle peering approach you will see a very similar situation - nobody wins.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Wolfgang</div>
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