[49813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT - Importance of Content
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph T. Klein)
Wed Jul 10 14:01:30 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:00:10 -0000
From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
To: "Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)" <sowens@epik.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4FD9652327EA47409B17639A9BFEB936E82C58@orlmail02.feci.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Careful.
Unbalanced traffic can cause difficulties with peering. The eyeball
heavy networks will tend to peer with you but a long list of large
(route table) players will not.
--On Wednesday, 10 July 2002 13:49 -0400 "Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)" <sowens@epik.net> wrote:
>
> I was wondering the importance of content to IP providers. Is it feasible to
> go after a lot of hosting companies and such as a business model and greatly
> skew your traffic ratios to hopefully reach a critical mass. I would think
> at some point you would have so much content that people would start to come
> to you for peering or to purchase access to get to that content which would
> cause a reduction in overall transit costs, but what would that critical
> mass be and how valid is that thought?
>
> Opinions?
>
> Shane Owens
>
>
>
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Joseph T. Klein jtk@titania.net
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