[19061] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bowman)
Tue Aug 25 18:46:00 1998
From: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
To: ahp@hilander.com (Alec H. Peterson)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:41:40 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: steve@altrina.exodus.net, owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US, jcurran@bbnplanet.com,
patrick@namesecure.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <35E338E0.43D723C1@hilander.com> from "Alec H. Peterson" at Aug 25, 98 06:21:20 pm
It will be a lot easier to incent customer to distribute, as a colocation
provider, if we don't have to pay per Mbps that is imbalanced--and instead
we have a direct cost associated with having to do best-exit.. I think
pretty much anyone can understand that.
>
> steve@altrina.exodus.net wrote:
> >
> > That's just how the internet plays, there are probably more sights
> > phisically in the silicon valley then anywhere else on the west coast. It's
> > where the busniness's are, and since they want to have their machines as
> > close to them as possible, they put them here.
>
> There's some interesting logic. Don't get me wrong, I understand it (from
> the customer's point of view). However, I think that it would be a good
> idea for web farms to start to make it worth the customer's while to
> distribute their servers. It may not be much of a network cost savings from
> the web farm's point of view, but it does address some of the traffic
> asymmetry issues, on top of improving performance to the end user.
>
> >
> > On the other hand, the customers who view the sites are spread out
> > all over the country (and world). Therefore replication is a good thing
> > for these businesses. With your servers located all around the country
> > (close to private or public peering points) you will get better performance.
>
> Agreed.
>
> >
> > Of course if there are no public or private peering points located near
> > the site, the value would be close to nil, since distribution needs local
> > inbound traffic to be worthwhile.
>
> Well, in the world of private interconnects there are private interconnect
> points all over the place. Also, you can always place your colocation
> facilities near the public interconnect points.
>
> > Steven O. Noble -- Sr. Backbone Engineer, Exodus Communications (EXDS)
>
> Alec
>
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> |Alec H. Peterson - ahp@hilander.com | Lead Network Architect |
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