[37188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless "de-peering"?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Sat May 5 23:28:39 2001
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 20:21:03 -0700
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, "Kyle C. Bacon" <kbacon@fnsi.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKAEODONAA.davids@webmaster.com>; from davids@webmaster.com on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:31:25PM -0700
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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:31:25PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
>
>
> > > Who gets hurt more if a hole is created due to de-peering?
> >
> > you do. c&w loses .00001 of the net. you lose .02. next question.
> >
> > randy
>
> Not so fast. While each of his customers is more inconvenienced than each
> c&w customer, c&w has more customers. The net inconvenience (total number of
> people inconvenienced multiplied by the average inconvenience to each) might
> be nearly the same on both sides. As an added bonus, he has someone else to
> blame.
That depends. Somebody that small (0.0001) is not going to be transit
free... so there isn't really a hole created. Sure, the smaller guy is
going to be paying more on transit rather than peering, but C&W customers
probably won't notice a thing, other than some relief on the congested
pipes to the public peering points.
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