RE: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

[James Breeden <James () arenalgroup co>]

Mehmet,

My opinion to you (and I have no network in the Carribbean or interest in it other than a purely academic and technical 
exercise)  would be that you guys go ahead and start, even if you just initially split the cost of the switch and 
interfaces to peer among yourselves. Once you get a base established of a lot of routes available, it may give you 
better “clout” for getting some larger players to connect to your IX or at least help sponsor an extension over 
transport to a Miami reach?

Just thinking aloud.


James W. Breeden
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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> On Behalf Of Mehmet Akcin
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 3:27 PM
To: nanog <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

It has been little over a year and we have been working on launching an internet exchange in puerto rico but of course 
hurricane and other things got in the way of achieving this.

We now have identified what we believe the right location (most of the isp’s have presence in this location) 
backbone/ip transit connectivity, local team to provide onsite support.

Having said that We have been engaged with several content delivery networks, OTTs but general feedback was that Puerto 
Rico was not on their radar for 2018 hence delayed launch. Now we are talking to same players about 2019 but general 
answer seemed like people were satisfied enough to serve Puerto Rico from Miami.

Perhaps we are talking to really big CDNs, OTTs and we should engage differently however the level of interest is very 
low and I really don’t want to “build and they will come” again ;-)

Bottom line is, if there was an IXP in Puerto Rico similar to ones in Florida, I am trying to understand who would 
actually deploy (just speak to your company only please) because most of my assumptions were proven wrong ;-)

I guess I want to ask two questions, given its location in caribbean, does Puerto Rico need an internet exchange point? 
Would you join it?(it will be a membership based IXP where members share cost)

Mehmet

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:27 AM Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net<mailto:mehmet () akcin net>> wrote:
Hey there!

... ok this time I am not going to call it PRIX ;) well name doesn't matter really. Nearly 13 years ago I have 
attempted to start Puerto rico Internet exchange in San Juan. I have lived there over 5 years and i just wanted to 
really watch videos faster. The project somewhat died when i moved to LA but now there are few interested party to 
start an internet exchange in Puerto rico. The jsland historically had one of the slowest broadband/internet services 
which seemed to have improved in recent years however as of 2017 there still is not an IX in Puerto rico.

We , 3-4 internet engineers (on island and remote) , want to look into relaunch of this IX and hopefully find a way to 
keep local traffic exchanged at high speeds and low cost. We need expertise, and people who want to help any way they 
can.

We are trying to make this IX a not-for-profit one and we are looking at opeeating models to adapt which has worked 
incredibly well like Seattle IX.

We are hoping the relaunch to happen sometime in 2018. Thanks in advance hope to share more info and traffic data 
sometime , soon. Watch this space!

Mehmet
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