[17234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Flavin)
Thu May 28 01:20:43 1998
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 23:28:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim Flavin <tim@i1.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980527162433.21541L-100000@iago.nac.net>
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Al Reuben wrote:
>
> I'd guestimate that local peering and stuff accounts for as much as 5 to
> 15% of our traffic.
>
I don't see numbers quite that high with local peering, but would
guestimate that 50% or more of out nntp traffic is across a local
exchange. I'm hoping to move another 20%+ of my total traffic off onto
AADS next week, which by no means is a local exchange, but Chicago ISP's
have never been able to agree on local peering, so AADS it is for Chicago
still.
>
> > Perhaps someone who is actually running a local exchange can report on
> > how much traffic they are carrying that is now not being sent to a
> > MAE-equivalent? I think that actual experience and hard data will
> > surprise us all.
> >
> > --tep
> >
> >
>
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