T&T launches Internet exchange point

[redmanjp]

hope this means better speeds!

http://www.guardian.co.tt/technology/2014-10-08/tt-launches-internet-exchange-point

T&T launches Internet exchange point
Published: Wednesday, October 8, 2014

T&T has become the latest Caribbean nation to launch an Internet exchange point (IXP).

Called TTIX, the local IXP brings together seven of the country’s Internet service providers (ISPs). Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT), Digicel, Massy Communications, Open Telecom, Greendot, Lisa Communications and Flow have signed on to the local exchange point.

TTIX connects the ISPs to a special network switch that is physically located at the Fujitsu data center in Barataria.

The new exchange point will give the ISPs a cost-effective way to connect their customers to locally destined content and services.

The chairman of TTIX is Kurleigh Prescod of Columbus Communications, who described the launch as “a very significant milestone.”

Globally, IXPs have been shown to improve the resilience, efficiency and security of local networks.

Prescod said the new IXP will improve local Internet performance and “act as an incentive to attract content providers, such as Netflix, Akamai and Google, to establish a point of presence in Trinidad and Tobago.”

There are over 350 IXPs around the world. T&T became the eighth in the Caribbean, joining British Virgin Islands (BVIX), Curacao (AMS-IX), Dominica (DANIX), Grenada (GREX), Haiti, St Maarten (OCIX), St Lucia (SLIX) and the Dominican Republic.

Jean-Paul Dookie, executive vice president of government business for Fujitsu described the new exchange point as “an essential building block towards the development of the Trinidad and Tobago knowledge economy.”

The promise of a better local Internet experience, data security and commercial opportunities has been one of the greatest incentives to establishing IXPs across the Caribbean.

“Tremendous progress has been made in sensitizing the region to the importance of building out national Internet infrastructure. Now we are seeing the fruit,” said Bernadette Lewis, secretary general of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU).

Lewis described the TTIX launch as a direct result years of education, outreach and ongoing efforts by the CTU to promote the proliferation of IXPs in the Caribbean. The CTU’s collaboration with international organisations such as Packet Clearing House, the Internet Society (ISOC) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has played a key role in raising awareness of the importance of local IXPs in T&T and across the region.

Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are actively engaged in setting up IXPs.

[Ignorant Ignis]

strange to see the list that went first and even stranger the list behind us

[redmanjp]

so torrent sharing between users of different local ISPs should be faster at peak time since u not using the overseas link i suppose

[daxt0r]

Seems like interconnection routing between TSTT and flow not happening yet.

there trace still shows its going through miami to come back trinidad

[Captain Awesome]

This would have been great for gaming back in the days when you could have created your own server for multi player games.

Good move though, long overdue.

[redmanjp]

does youtube use mirrror sites? one could be setup here in T&T, saving a lot of bandwidth (video streaming sites use the majority of all bandwidth)

[daxt0r]

does youtube use mirrror sites? one could be setup here in T&T, saving a lot of bandwidth (video streaming sites use the majority of all bandwidth)

They use global caching servers which leverage anycast, they can now place a local caching server to serve requests faster an without incurring internation transit, this IXP opens up alot of opportunities like this.

[K74T]

Kept reading the thread title as Internet exchange porn.

[redmanjp]

This would have been great for gaming back in the days when you could have created your own server for multi player games.

Good move though, long overdue.

would still be useful for gaming as ping times would be less now

[ek4ever]

next up ..... internet f-root DNS server and web caching servers. Would also be nice to have a Tier 3 data centre connected to this IXP .... ultra-fast local cloud service...boom!

[redmanjp]

another benefit - no NSA spying on local traffic going through US links

[purple_heart77]

This would have been great for gaming back in the days when you could have created your own server for multi player games.

Good move though, long overdue.

would still be useful for gaming as ping times would be less now

Ok my layman thinking only goes that far, if playing on a USA server and sitting in Trinidad, will the ping time still not be the same as data still has to go to the USA and then back?
Help in understanding how the ping will decrease....ready to own more...

[Captain Awesome]

This would have been great for gaming back in the days when you could have created your own server for multi player games.

Good move though, long overdue.

would still be useful for gaming as ping times would be less now

Ok my layman thinking only goes that far, if playing on a USA server and sitting in Trinidad, will the ping time still not be the same as data still has to go to the USA and then back?
Help in understanding how the ping will decrease....ready to own more...

You using your brain there. It won't help gaming unless servers are stationed locally.

[purple_heart77]

Grr...had a ray of hope....np...as I was.....

[redmanjp]

seems interconnection is active now

tracing from tstt to flow:-

Tracing route to ns1.flowtrinidad.com [200.1.104.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms <1 ms 2 ms wimax [192.168.0.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 91 ms 74 ms 70 ms cuscon67144.tstt.net.tt [190.58.141.106]
4 80 ms 84 ms 63 ms 190-58-255-21.business.static.tstt.net.tt [190.
8.255.21]
5 66 ms 60 ms 57 ms cuscon66795.tstt.net.tt [190.58.140.13]
6 67 ms 88 ms 80 ms 209.94.205.130
7 157 ms 147 ms 177 ms 181.188.0.250
8 186 ms 182 ms 139 ms ns1.flowtrinidad.com [200.1.104.35]

Trace complete.

[desifemlove]

meh....i jus does want IPv6...

[ismithx]

meh....i jus does want IPv6...

Gonna take a lot for ipv4 to phase out, it's too deeply entrenched