[18632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering with a big web farm (was Re: BBN Peering Issues)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Aug 13 02:34:55 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 02:20:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: alex@nac.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812173703.3051M-100000@iago.nac.net>
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 alex@nac.net wrote:
> > 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!
If BBN wants to sell connectivity to a big web farm provider, how does
BBN's forcing all hits through a cache help BBN? The data all still
crosses BBN's backbone, and the the web farm provider won't need as big a
pipe. Maybe I'm missing something, but if BBN starts charging former
peers, I'd think caching at these edges would be a bad thing for BBN.
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