[46367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exodus/C&W Depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue Mar 26 13:19:57 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:18:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>,
Chris Parker <cparker@starnetusa.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> You mean Exodus are well connected and C&W limit themselves which gives
> longer paths and increased latency.
Longer paths definitely, increased jitter probably, increased latency
probably, increased loss possibly.
C&W obviously have to have a lot of peering as well, since it's all they
have to sell to their customers. However, their peering tends to be
limited to a small number of peers to whom they have large connections,
whereas Exodus had a large number of peers to whom they had medium-sized
connections. So the average hop-count and as-path length for the Internet
as a whole are both increased by this action, and nearly all paths
increase in length for Exodus customers. So yes, Exodus customers are the
big losers in the wake of this.
-Bill
