Dominica is expected to have an internet exchange point (IXP) up and running in January, the third in the English-speaking Caribbean, Bernadette Lewis, secretary general of the Caribbean Telecoms Union (CTU), told BNamericas.
At the end of May, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Grenada both launched IXPs. Other countries that have begun discussions on IXPs are St Kitts and Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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a bank of servers.
who will be in control is the issue
I DON’T TRUST IT…
AS IF THE NJIC NOT ENOUGH
Specifically the real ‘benefit’ is that traffic between Marpin and LIME doesn’t go out of the island before it comes back in (as it does presently, incurring charges for local carriers). Since this traffic is small, don’t expect whatever savings there are to be passed on to the consumer. But yes, Big Brother would love to get his hands on an IXP.
Finally someone makes sense. Did any reporter actually try to find out why or if that IXP would make any sense? If it’s not going to make any big difference why bother? And I don’t believe it will. And also, who says the ISP has to reduce cost to us anyway? More money for them.
This simply means that Big Brother can continently look over ever piece of data that traverse the intranet, they can also block information from reaching Dominicans (as we see in china) and there is a one button shut down where the man himself can turn off internet traffic with a single command.
do not mean to scare you .. there are good sides to it as in better tracking of cyber crimes perpetrators, all information out and in in country is routed through this IPX so overall better security..
sorry i could not get any more good reasons but am sure there are more.
Learn what an ixp is befoore you comment please… What is happening is a LOCAL IX. So traffic doesnt leave the country through the ixp.
How much local traffic do we get for that to make any difference? When was the last time you streamed from a local server.
The primary purpose of an IXP is to allow networks to interconnect directly, via the exchange, rather than through one or more third-party networks. The advantages of the direct interconnection are numerous, but the primary reasons are cost, latency, and bandwidth.[1]
Traffic passing through an exchange is typically not billed by any party, whereas traffic to an ISP’s upstream provider is. The direct interconnection, often located in the same city as both networks, avoids the need for data to travel to other cities (potentially on other continents) to get from one network to another, thus reducing latency.[2]
The third advantage, speed, is most noticeable in areas that have poorly developed long-distance connections. ISPs in these regions might have to pay between 10 or 100 times more for data transport than ISPs in North America, Europe or Japan. Therefore, these ISPs typically have slower, more limited connections to the rest of the internet. However, a connection to a local IXP may allow them to transfer data without limit, and without cost, vastly improving the bandwidth between customers of the two adjacent ISPs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point
I have no idea what it really means … for Dominicans I mean.
This sounds good so that mean we might be in sight for faster cheaper service because of this….. like the sound of that.
The primary purpose of an IXP is to allow networks to interconnect directly, via the exchange, rather than through one or more third-party networks. The advantages of the direct interconnection are numerous, but the primary reasons are cost, latency, and bandwidth. Traffic passing through an exchange is typically not billed by any party, whereas traffic to an ISP’s upstream provider is. The direct interconnection, often located in the same city as both networks, avoids the need for data to travel to other cities (potentially on other continents) to get from one network to another, thus reducing latency. The third advantage, speed, is most noticeable in areas that have poorly developed long-distance connections. ISPs in these regions might have to pay between 10 or 100 times more for data transport than ISPs in North America, Europe or Japan. Therefore, these ISPs typically have slower, more limited connections to the rest of the internet. However, a connection to a local IXP may allow them to transfer data without limit, and without cost, vastly improving the bandwidth between customers of the two adjacent ISPs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point
WE should expect cheaper internet and faster speed as well. That’s if these businesses don’t try to rob us otherwise.
Expect cheaper internet why? How often would your traffic move between Marpin , Lime or SAT?
great move ctu
What is that??
Great Move.