[10549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Backbone Index
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Laughlin)
Wed Jul 9 14:18:11 1997
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:57:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Laughlin <robert@portal.dx.net>
To: Gary Zimmerman <garyz@savvis.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970709124012.AAA19748@rock>
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Gary Zimmerman wrote:
> When 80 to 90 percent of the Internet traffic is to MCI, SPRINT and UUNET
> then our model is the right way to build this, not to try and see how many
> peering agreements one can get.
DataXchange purchases transit from uunet, mci & sprint. But we also
aggressively try to peer with those who wish to peer. Gary, you are wrong
to say that 90% of traffic is for uunet, mci or sprint. I have the
statistics on my own network to prove this. Typically we see a breakdown
like this:
MCI 22%
Sprint 7%
UUNET 21%
all other (via peering) 48%
In our opinion since only 52% of the traffic has its best routing thru
uunet, sprint & mci, bi-lateral peering is definately worthwhile.
Best Regards,
Robert Laughlin
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