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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (35684)	9/14/2010 9:02:14 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

WLD, re: "... exchanges (allegedly) perform a public function - is it reasonable to expect them to act in a net-neutral way in handing out colos on their private-but-should-be-public networks? But there is a physical limitation on the number of colo slots - how should that be dealt with?" Several month ago poster aladin addressed how 'fairness' is attempted within the exchanges and their associated collocation centers when in the assignment of racks and switch ports, essentially through a process of equidistancing each entity's servers and by equalizing the cable lengths between switch ports and the exchange servers, as described in #msg-26724037 and in an earlier post to ftth, which you can trace back to. Of course this only applies (to the extent that it is meaningful) for those entities that are given access to colos in the first place. FAC ------