[44521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a question about the economics of peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Mansey)
Fri Nov 30 15:28:30 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:27:56 -0800
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From: Jon Mansey <jon@interpacket.net>
To: Arman <arman@unitedlayer.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 12:00 PM, Arman wrote:
>
> Daniel Golding wrote:
>>
>>
> .....
>> 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.
heh! tell someone on the end of duplex satellite that! Streaming no,
downloads very much yes.
jm
> ak
>
