How do the electronic bits get used?


An Internet Exchange is intended to be the very fast but inexpensive
network path

Peers run BGP and have other providers -- so they can deal with failure!

Small network interruptions are OK
Promises or SLA's don't matter; BGP fails over invisibly
Not rocket science

Volunteers can do this, and it is very common; if it grows, change
the model

Don't take my word -- go read about SIX (Seattle) or hundreds of
exchanges around the world!

But how do we make this happen?