[AusNOG] ubiquitous peering

[Simon Allard]

In New Zealand the Chorus has relaxed their fibre rules, and now it's quite easy for access seekers to run fibres between different company access seeker racks.

It's really changed how ISP's peer and do business. Before the Auckland Skytower used to be the only place ISP's could peer/do business but now there are a number of exchanges being used.

Chorus have done very well due to increased sales of foot print space and duct rental revenue.

Maybe Telstra will see what's happened in NZ  and change their mind? (Dreams are free!)


From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012 10:10 a.m.
To: Michael Kahl
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ubiquitous peering

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Michael Kahl <michael at kahl.id.au<mailto:michael at kahl.id.au>> wrote:
Hi Tom,

I agree in the sense that it's not feasible, or even desirable for the NBN to build modern, highly dense datacentres at each POI site. However there's also no reason to go to the complete opposite extreme and basically rule out the possibility of anything but some basic transport equipment being installed within the POI as well, which from my understanding is all the current rules allow.

Why not use a model where any access seeker can buy their rack space, buy their power, and then use that space and power in any way they see fit? As the POI sites are not purpose designed datacentres the power and space will more than likely come at a premium price over a purpose designed facility, so will only be used when there is a clear benefit in doing so.

You might find that power just isn't available.  Most of the POIs are going to be inside Telstra exchanges where power isn't plentiful.  (The whole POI inside an exchange is going to be very, very messy - can't wait to see Telstra come and apply their crazy rules on fibre entering the exchanges ...).

As I said earlier - I don't see that many POIs will be interesting as meeting points.  Most places will be in metro locations where hauling it back to an existing aggregation point will be cheaper than replicating network elements in a POI.

MMC
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