[101530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Wed Jan 9 16:23:34 2008
In-Reply-To: <478528D5.1060009@ai.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:11:54 +0000
To: deepak@ai.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9 Jan 2008, at 20:04, Deepak Jain wrote:
> I remember Bill Norton's peering forum regarding P2P traffic and
> how the majority of it is between cable and other broadband
> providers... Operationally, why not just lash a few additional 10GE
> cross-connects and let these *paying customers* communicate as they
> will?
This does nothing to affect last-mile costs, and these costs could be
the reason that you need to cap at all (certainly this is the case in
the UK).
