[c-nsp] Buying IP transit at IX?

[Tuc at T-B-O-H]

> 
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Vincent De Keyzer wrote:
> 
> > what is wrong with buying IP transit at an IX point (in Europe in my case)?
> 
> Nothing at all as far as I know.  If you already have a presence at 
> $IX_POINT and your transit providers have a presence there as well, then 
> there is no local loop charge.  You'd get a port fee of some sort from the 
> transit provider and possibly a cross-connect fee from the provider and 
> the IX host.
> 
	My only suggestion is to make sure the IX allows the transfer
of transit over it. One I used to belong to did not want to allow this,
even though all 3 of our transit providers were on there. (Granted, I never
would have done all 3 since it would be a single point of failure).

		Tuc/TBOH