[*] MBIX gets mentioned in CIRA blog ...

[Bill Reid]

I mostly agree with what John is saying. The reason we do not have more IXs is 
that the business case is hard to make at the beginning. But that does not mean 
that an IX is not viable in the long term even in smaller areas like Wpg. The 
trick is how to get to the point where a business case can be made to connect.

Hurricane Electric is finally coming to the BC IX and will provide very 
competitive transit for their members. They are already at TORIX. I suspect that 
transit providers are more likely to enter a market where there is an existing 
IX. Of course it is not clear that MBIX will ever be big enough to encourage 
this but it is a plausible possibility.

-- Bill

On 29/06/12 14:16, John Lange wrote:

> In every region in Canada there are (at best), only 2 ways to get to the
> internet, your Cable co, or your Telco. Everyone else is just a reseller of one
> of those 2 providers.
>