[53749] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Nov 23 08:34:43 2002
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:31:43 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@endless.iteration.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Michael C. Wu wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:00:48AM +0200, Petri Helenius scribbled:
>|
>| > I'm putting the number closer to 40 (the "NFL cities") right now, and
>| > 150 by the end of the decade, and ultimately any "metro" with population
>| > greater than 50K in a 100 sq Km area will need a neutral exchange point
>| > (even if it's 1500 sqft in the bottom of a bank building.)
>|
>| What application will require this dense peering?
>
>To power the IPv6 networks of refridgerators, ovens, and light switches,
> as well as your 3G video conferencing phone
>
>
>
All of the above combined don't generate bandwith even near what a current
generation peer2peer file sharing client does.
The mentioned applications are not really delay sensitive to the sub-20ms
range either.
Pete
