[30716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Formal study: How many points networks share
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Aug 27 00:12:36 2000
Date: 26 Aug 2000 21:10:51 -0700
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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After the thread a couple of weeks ago on how many nexuses are needed
for the Internet to work, the MIB (actually a woman, but that's a different
thread) asked if there were any formal studies.
Have any providers done a formal study of how many points they share
in common with other networks? I know most providers consider their
competition, if nothing else for how peering will be done. There
seems to be a tremendous amount of overlap between networks. Almost
every major network map looks identical. And there are some third-party
consultants selling network maps. But I was wondering if anyone had
a formal study from "the horses mouth."
