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

[Dean Jones]

I thought Manitoba Hydro had some ISP capabilities, running on fibre so very fast and reaching rural areas, but lag when talking to MTS or Shaw. Would that be where another IX is needed?

Dean

On Jun 29, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Bill Reid <billreid at shaw.ca> wrote:

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.
> 
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