[19502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTEI/Exodus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Tue Sep 15 22:42:56 1998
To: steve@altrina.exodus.net
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jon@zeeff.com, tim@clipper.net, list@inet-access.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980915193222.A28252@altrina.exodus.net> from "steve@altrina.exodus.net" at Sep 15, 98 07:32:22 pm
From: jzeeff@verio.net (Jon Zeeff)
Reply-to: jon@zeeff.com
With only two egress points you generally can't get all that close to
the destination. Adding more points would mean less byte miles for BBN.
> Uhm.. We were doing that originally before the whole mess started :)
>
> > Or perhaps Exodus is evening out the byte miles between source and destination
> > ISPs by hauling traffic closer to the destination before it leaves
> > their network.
