The Real Cost of Public IXPs
Over the past 5 years, the market price of transit has dropped 80%, yet the average price of the top 6 IXPs in Europe has dropped only 27%. Were IXPs too cheap to …
| Talk Title | The Real Cost of Public IXPs |
| Speakers | David Temkin (Netflix) |
| Conference | NANOG67 |
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| Location | Chicago, Illinois |
| Date | Jun 13 2016 - Jun 15 2016 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
| Video | Talk Video |
Over the past 5 years, the market price of transit has dropped 80%, yet the average price of the top 6 IXPs in Europe has dropped only 27%. Were IXPs too cheap to start with or has their structure not evolved with the rest of the market? Are they steadily returning value to their members? I seek to answer this question. I’ll explore how IXPs make and spend money and what the hard impact of infrastructure cost changes are as well as the soft cost of things like currency fluctuation between markets. I will use real data and examples to prove my point.
