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Re: BBN Peering issues

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Sommer)
Fri Aug 14 14:48:16 1998

From: "Matt Sommer" <cache22@webkorner.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, <dsr@bbn.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:35:22 -0400

you keep missing the most obvious interpretation:

1.85% of exodus's output goes to bbn.
10-30% of bbn's input is from exodus.

this may still be a ridiculous figure, but maybe not, if exodus is hosting
30 of the top 100 web sites.


>>>> >off.  Let's face the facts, BBN is only 1.85% of my traffic.  By all
accounts,
>>> >we estimate to be in the area of 10-30% of their traffic.  Lots of
luck.  We
>>> >actually see a massively inverted benefit scale in this particular
situation.
>
>It seems intuitively reasonable to me that 1.85% of Exodus input comes from
BBN.
>No arguments there. I would like to know where the "By all accounts, we
estimate
>to be in the area of 10-30% of their traffic." sentence comes from. Are you
suggesting
>that 10-30% of BBN's total output goes to Exodus? Or that 10-30% of Exodus
output
>goes to BBN?
>
>The first scenario is ridiculous. The second scenario is possible, but I
would suspect
>it is closer to 10% than 30%.
>
>-dsr-
>
>...Still not speaking for the company...
>



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