[44519] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a question about the economics of peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arman)
Fri Nov 30 15:03:40 2001
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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:00:36 -0800
From: Arman <arman@unitedlayer.com>
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To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@sockeye.com>
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Daniel Golding wrote:
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> Hmm. Congested public exchange points were a reality at some point in the
> past. They are now a recurrent myth, thanks to the demise of FDDI EPs and
> the rise of GigE EPs. There is little congestion, at this point. Of course,
> this could be because most Internet traffic is exchanged over private
> peering.
>
> I think that most clued folks are largely uninterested in hop-count. Latency
> is much more important.
that depends on your primary application, latency is not important for
streaming or downloads.
ak
