[18621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering with a big web farm (was Re: BBN Peering Issues)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@nac.net)
Wed Aug 12 17:52:25 1998
From: alex@nac.net
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:37:49 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, alex@nt.nac.net
In-Reply-To: <19980812202722Z27208-22862+461@cesium.clock.org>
> Alex Rubenstein, turning John Curran's words around, suggested:
>
> | "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."
>
> which is an interesting point IN FAVOUR OF peering with a large
> web hosting network at only one location.
>
> If one can force all outgoing to-the-webhosted-site queries
> through a single web cache, and the content is (or is made to be)
> relatively undynamic, one has a huge caching potential.
Amen; I didn't even see that. But, that could work to BBN's favor!
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