Re: Can an IXP sell IP transit?

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

> Over the coming years, I expect exchange points to do some strangely
> interesting things, as the towel of revenue continues to get tighter and
> tighter to squeeze.
>
> Especially so if a few of the large content providers continue to pull
> back from route servers and such.


Content providers aren't leaving IXP's completely. They're still there,
still paying monthly for ports and XCs. Still doing bilateral peering over
the IX. There's no revenue hit to an IXP for a CDN to de-peer off the route
servers.


On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 10:20 PM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

> On 11/5/24 02:56, William Herrin wrote:
>
> Of course they can sell transit. The reason they don't is that it has
> the potential to create a conflict of interest. When your customer is
> also a competitor and your customer suffers an outage that's your
> fault... Well, you see where this is going.
>
>
> Over the coming years, I expect exchange points to do some strangely
> interesting things, as the towel of revenue continues to get tighter and
> tighter to squeeze.
>
> Especially so if a few of the large content providers continue to pull
> back from route servers and such.
>
> Mark.