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

[Dan Keizer]

Over the past number of years when I looked at various connections, they
did seem very odd and I wonder why they traverse into the states.  I, too,
would have thought connectivity would have improved ...

  I did a quick check (and it didn't take long to find an example) ...

I'm on les.net and my traceroute to our neighbour to the west (Saskatchewan
- city of Regina actually) takes me as such:

Les -> GT WPG -> GT VANCOUVER -> GT SEATTLE -> HE SEATTLE -> HE VANCOUVER
-> SASKTEL ...

that's quite a few hops (and to the south) to go a few hundred km's to the
west

Compare that to a Saskatoon connection ...

Les -> GT -> SHAW WPG -> BIGPIPE SASKATOON
(nice and light) ...

Some peer well, others don't ... room for growth and expansion I'd say :-)

Dan.


On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Lange <john at johnlange.ca> wrote:

> ... And I'd be very surprised if any Canada-to-Canada inter-ISP routing
> goes through the U.S so the "within Canada" statement doesn't seem a likely
> motivation either.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I not anti IXP, I just don't see a need or a business
> case for it.
>
> John
>
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