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There are some facility and org requirements depending on the various company's rack setups, but most of that's standard. The main requirement is how much traf
by revertts 7y ago
There are some facility and org requirements depending on the various company's rack setups, but most of that's standard.
The main requirement is how much traffic you need to be doing with the peer before they give you a rack - Apple states 25Gbps; more mature programs like Netflix are 5Gbps. Sometimes that's negotiable and they'll hand them out for even smaller traffic amounts (I've heard less than 1Gbps for some of those listed, though won't mention which ones). Like most things in this area of networking, there's a lot of variability and personal contacts involved.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoSome of these deals are even arrived at over beers at a bar at conferences like NANOG (North American Network Operators Group).
- fyfy18 7y agoThat's not really suprising. I imagine setting up a new deployment isn't terribly expensive (now the R&D is done), but given you are going to be spending a few weeks working with the ISP to get it up and running, you probably want it to be with someone you get on well with.
- regularfry 7y agoIt's not only that. The community is comparatively small and tight-knit, one's technical abilities can be judged relatively comfortably from afar, and social currency matters a lot. Everyone with a stake in The Network already has to trust and be trusted by their peers. In that situation, informal agreements seem to work out well.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoSpot on!