David Diaz
About David Diaz
Bellsouth Mix (NAP exchange point) Co- Architect & Consultant http://www.bellsouth.net Optical Design expert. The Bellsouth Mix was a metro area exchange point that was completely cutting edge. It was a subsidiary of Bellsouth.net, and a registered CLEC in the Florida. I was the original inspiration in 1999, co-architect and President Susan Campbell was brought in to finish the concept. The mix was built to address several problems with metro fiber and internet peering. It was deployed at strategic points: undersea fiber head, carrier hotels, customer mega collocations, and major central offices. Circuit sizes varied from DS1 through OC48, and included 100 meg through gigE Ethernet. The network was a first of it’s kind optical exchange point based on DWDM and Optical Switching technology. Peering Advisor for all of Bellsouth.net including all strategies related to deployment, peering criteria, peering relations, and financial analysis for over 23 autonomous system numbers. Founder, CTO International Wire Communications IWC was an engineering and technology company that provided metro connectivity to network operators such carriers, PTTs, ISPs, and ICPs globally. It accounted for over 80% of the entire DSL backbone in Florida and was the largest customer of Bellsouth DS3 circuits in 1999. Northpoint Communications, Covad, Rhythms, as well as dozens of smaller players in the space used the network. Chief Technical Officer, Netrail, Inc. Netrail, Inc.; Atlanta, GA. Netrail was a Tier-1 MPLS network that delivered IP and next-gen services such as VoIP, guaranteed bandwidth "IP Clear Channel", and VPN services with QoS/CoS guarantees. As CTO, I achieved Tier 1 status for Netrail, and a full 96% of all it’s internet traffic was exchanged over private peering. It was only the 10th Tier1 backbone in the country. Netrail had OC-48 network using VPNs, OSPF, BGP, MPLS as AS4006 in 60 cities, and at a dozen exchange points. Specialties: Google search has some relavent hits for me: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=diaz&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=netrail,+smoton,+peering,+equinix&as_eq=movie&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images-