[17424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Mon Jun 1 12:19:35 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:31:27 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net>
To: Tom Perrine <tep@SDSC.EDU>
Cc: jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805232350.QAA03916@galt>; from Tom Perrine on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 04:50:52PM -0700
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 04:50:52PM -0700, Tom Perrine wrote:
> Currently there are at least 60 ISPs serving the San Diego county
> area. There are LOTS of packets from "home" to "office" that make a
> round-trip via MAE-West. Some people have decided that this is
> silly. Even if it is "cost-effective", it *squanders* bandwidth at
> MAE-West that could best be used for other traffic.
>
> I wonder how much bandwidth at the MAEs could be saved if more areas
> built local low-cost NAPs just for local traffice exchanges?
I think there's a lot of merit to this proposal. When I first signed on with
a local Internet provider, the owner explained to me that GEOGRAPHIC
proximity does not always equal INTERNET proximity. Back then (1991-92)
there was not a lot of infrastructure, so often that couldn't be helped. It's
quite different now, though.
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