[163897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net neutrality and peering wars continue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Thu Jun 20 18:26:25 2013
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:26:01 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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* owen@delong.com (Owen DeLong) [Thu 20 Jun 2013, 23:38 CEST]:
>On Jun 20, 2013, at 10:39 PM, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net> wrote:
>> * woody@pch.net (Bill Woodcock) [Thu 20 Jun 2013, 16:59 CEST]:
>>>On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:37 AM, Benson Schliesser
>>><bensons@queuefull.net> wrote:
>>>>Right. By "sending peer" I meant the network transmitting a packet
[...]
>>>every packet in one direction is balanced by a packet in the other direction
>>
>>You're mistaken if you think that CDNs have equal number of
>>packets going in and out.
>
>They are roughly equal (modulo delayed acks, etc.). However, the
>number of octets is very different from the number of packets. There
>is much greater asymmetry in number of octets than in number of
>packets.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Also, if you don't have data, best to keep your opinion to yourself,
because you might well be wrong.
-- Niels.
