[38289] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The early days of peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Jun 2 22:40:31 2001
Date: 2 Jun 2001 19:38:55 -0700
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On Sat, 02 June 2001, Jerry Scharf wrote:
> 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.
In "the early days" UUNET was a net exporter of traffic due to its
original business the UUCP/USENET hub and hosting FTP.UU.NET. With
USENET, one message went into UUNET, and they broadcast thousands of
copies to their UUCP/USENET customers. Likewise, with FTP one copy
of X11 was uploaded to ftp.uu.net and thousands of copies were downloaded.
