[52851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint VS. Qwest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niclas Comstedt)
Fri Oct 18 19:08:59 2002
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:58:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Niclas Comstedt <nco@comstedt.net>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: Mark Borchers <mborchers@igillc.com>,
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>, dgold <dgold@FDFNet.Net>,
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
"Christopher K. Neitzert" <chris@neitzert.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021018222540.GA88545@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> At the end of the day, no provider is even 50% of the internet (my
> assertion), which means more of your bits will leave your providers
> network then will stay on it.
I would agree with that "no provider is 50% of the internet" if you by
that mean no provider has 50% of all internet traffic. I do however think
it's possible that in some provider networks, 50% (or close to it anyway)
of the traffic coming into the network from customers, exit on a customer
port. This of course doesn't necessarily mean that 50% of the traffic sent
to your customer comes from other customers (that I find very unlikely).
/nco
