Re: Can an IXP sell IP transit?

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* mark@tinka.africa (Mark Tinka) [Sat 16 Nov 2024, 02:53 CET]:
> The original intention for route servers is to simplify turn-up for  
> the majority of networks, most of whom will be eyeball-focused. They 
> did offer cloud & content folk utility as they quickly ramped up 
> their CDN deployments globally over the past decade-and-a-bit.

One of the original intentions was that. The other, major, driver was 
control plane scalability. For a while IXPs grew way too large in 
regard to the number of available peers for certain routing engines 
from certain vendors to keep up in case there ever was a switch 
outage. A router server could radically decrease the number of EBGP 
peers and thus overhead.


        -- Niels.