[69784] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Hale)
Tue Apr 20 08:46:29 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:45:03 -0400
From: "Gary Hale" <ghale@globalinternetworking.com>
To: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>,
"Gordon Cook" <cook@cookreport.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
The question is too simplistic ... It is not (simply) a matter of small
vs. big or being on your own network from source-to-destination. Peering
is an enabler ... and gives all an opportunity to share content globally
... kinda' fundamental to the Internet consortium.=20
Is your question, 'Since fiber is so cheap, why doesn't everyone build
an autonomous, facilities-based, global "Internet" network that competes
for narrowband/broadband "pullers" of data and hosting/data centers/etc.
for content providers ("pulled-fromers" or "pushers" of data)?
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Py [mailto:michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us]=20
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:46 PM
To: Gordon Cook; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit
> Peering? Who needs peering if transit can be
> had for $20 per megabit per second?
The smaller guys that don't buy transit buy the gigabit.
Michel.
