[17197] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed May 27 13:54:04 1998
To: "Pickett, David" <dpickett@northc.com>
cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 May 1998 12:05:57 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:44:08 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
"Pickett, David" writes:
> 1) More needs to be done to leverage locality of traffic
In the long run, why are we assuming there will be locality of
traffic?
It is true that the old PSTN has locality of traffic, but it doesn't
have flat rate pricing, or the usage patterns that the Internet has. I
argue that users are rarely more likely to be trying to download a web
page from near to their homes than from far away. If there is
locality, it is probably weak, and in the long run would only account
for a fraction of the traffic.
Perry
