[12467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Engineering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Sep 17 16:00:09 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:44:00 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Kent W. England wrote:
> At
> that point a pizza parlor owner says to himself "two out of every five of
> my customers are on the Internet. Perhaps I need a web page." And,
> suddenly, pizza on the Net makes a lot of sense and the traffic patterns
> shift. As the density grows to 90%, local traffic becomes dominant over
> distant traffic.
Georgaphically local, not topologically.
A *big* difference.
Unless we're willing to go back to regulated monopolies geographical
locality makes little difference in overall traffic patterns.
--vadim
