Re: comments on proposed setup

[Sematimba Noah K <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug>]

> Well, I suppose a switch would work just as fine, since it will have
> connections to/from all the ISP's communications equipment at the IXP, but
> in the interest of future growth and expansion and effective Network
> Management Control [NMC] at the IXP to encompass more architectures,
> services and applications, not only for the IXP and ISPs, but for the other
> end users such as NGOs and other coporations that might require co-location
> based services, web hosting, media streaming, the works, at any of the ISPs
> that has access to the IXP,
 Of course with co-location in mind the simple scenario suggested wouldn't
work. However as far as architectires are concerned a switch does not care
who made the router it is connected to and as long as that router can run
BGP4 and talk to the others then there is no problem. The advantages I can
see with the simplistic setup are really that management becomes easy as
the individual ISPs simply take care of peering between themselves and as
well scaling is easy you simply get a bigger switch or add another one.
But as I said earlier if we're considering co-location this is not
practical.

regards,
Noah