On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Dystan Hays <dystan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,
I've been lurking for, it seems, a long time -- 'cause I'm in L.A.
(working R & D for the City, in a communications department) and up to my
ears in problem solving -- but the Bay area has a special place in my
heart, from lots of years of attention to and involvement in it.
The questions raised here are important to me. I wish I were local
enough (and free enough...) to actively participate. I entertain similar
questions regarding the Southern California region as well.
I operate servers out of DCA Net's colo in Wilmington, Delaware and,
though it's not a peering exchange, the bandwidth's pretty high. I spent a
number of years working at Avi Freedman's Netaxs in the Philly area doing
system and network admin chores, and sat in on a lot of conversations about
peering with the big guys on the East coast. Avi characterized my
contribution as "translating English to English", when the suits' eyes
would glaze-over as he was talking tech. I've been doing IT since before
anyone heard of a computer.
Cool! Maybe you'd like to give a short talk about how colos work at our
next workshop? It's a free hands-on workshop on wireless node mounting and
internet crimping and this time the theme will be "how the internet works".
I can't remember the exact date but I believe it's scheduled for a Saturday
afternoon at the beginning of July. I'm sure we could find a place for you
to crash for the weekend if you were to make the trip!
--
marc/juu