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Re: BBN Peering issues

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@nac.net)
Wed Aug 12 15:52:50 1998

From: alex@nac.net
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:41:09 -0400 (EDT)
To: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
cc: Mike Schrimshaw <michaels@sun.aracnet.com>,
        Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>, nanog@merit.edu, alex@nt.nac.net
In-Reply-To: <199808121718.KAA27428@implode.root.com>

> http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980810h.html

John Curran says:

"The central problem is asymmetry of traffic between GTEI and the hosting
companies, Curran said. Exodus pumps many times more bits to GTEI than are
sent the other way."


My rebut (which, may be totally uncalled for):

"The central problem is asymmetry of traffic between GTEI and the hosting
companies, Curran said. BBN/GTEI customers generally request webpages from
Exodus more than from other places."


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