[17430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Jun 1 14:39:44 1998
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:24:41 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980529233127.11442@shell.nacs.net>; from Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net> on Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:31:27PM -0400
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:31:27PM -0400, Steve Sobol wrote:
> > 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.
No it's not.
There's still little confluence between the two distance metrics. :-)
You're correct in noting that the infrastructure will support it now,
though.
Gotta go find me a vulture capitalist...
Cheers,
- jra
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