[ILUG] [OT ish] Peering - Ireland and the world

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Chris Higgins wrote:

> except that some of the global telco's (UUnet)[1] won't peer
> there because it means that they can't sell services to the large
> ISPs .. (you can't charge for something that you are giving away
> for free)[2]

uhmmm... perhaps it's cause the global telco's do not have any
intra-ireland routes, and INEX is meant only for intra-ireland
routes? Not much point in BigTelco peering when all their lines go to
London/Amsterdam/etc..

regards,
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