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Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Gauthier)
Wed Dec 18 22:54:22 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:53:47 -0500
From: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
To: "Ringdahl, Dwight (WebUseNet)" <ringdahl@usenetserver.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6D7767D666C2EB40909568618C02BD39DAB9B3@c7000.corp.webusenet.com>; from ringdahl@usenetserver.com on Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:17:32PM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> My thoughts are Cogents primary customers are sites that are looking for
> very cheap bandwidth, which most likely is adult content. Therefore they
> would look more like a content provider than a transit provider.
Cogent is making in roads at a lot of Universities who want, as we all
know, large amounts bandwidth but don't want to pay for it :)
Whether the University is a sink or source of traffic typically comes
down to whether or not they filter/rate-limit their peer-to-peer
traffic. If they do, then the University will look like
any traditional end-user ISP. If they don't, then the University
will like like a hosting provider with lots of "content"...
Eric :)
