On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch < apisan@unam.mx> wrote:
That said, the recent increase in attention to IXPs is also associated with the fact that some of them appear to be of a new breed, attracting content and cloud-based service providers as well as CDNs (content-distribution networks, such as Akamai).
Well said, Alejandro! Yessir, very true. The major disability in the Caribbean is access. Some of us are hoping that development of IXPs in the Caribbean will act exactly in this way, stimulating growth in local content development which in turn might drive deeper broadband penetration. We have to use push/pull strategies to get out from under this one. - Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================