[54374] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL & Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Kruckenberg)
Sun Dec 29 00:21:55 2002
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:21:26 -0700 (MST)
From: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021228225230.GT508@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> Consider this example: If I buy 100Mbit of transit from
> AboveNet in IAD, odds are you're gonna peer off 75% of
> my traffic locally, without it ever having touched
> expensive longhaul circuits. If I buy 100Mbit of paid
> peering, odds are you're going to be burning longhaul
> circuits carrying most of it all over the world, plus
> the same longhaul carrying it all back to me.
So are any ISPs pricing transit and/or paid-peering
bandwidth (significantly) lower if purchased at an exchange
point?
Pete.
