[38275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The early days of peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Scharf)
Sat Jun 2 09:46:29 2001
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To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "02 Jun 2001 01:39:19 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 06:45:06 -0700
From: Jerry Scharf <scharf@vix.com>
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Sean,
Amusingly, those days did not produce the traffic ratio problem. Everyone
hauled a circuit from their network to the router in Santa Clara and the
traffic was symmetric. Thus there was no bandwidth*distance difference in the
passed traffic.
It was when multiple connection points came in that traffic differential
became an issue. Those requirements were put in when the perceived center of
business for the "other ISPs" was local dial connection and bandwidth times
distance was used to justify the multiple connections, nationwide networks...
Business changed and now the colos are facing the same arguement for being on
the opposite side of the spectrum.
jerry
