[72242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Jul 3 11:48:04 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 08:47:11 -0700
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> The price being charged for the public exchange ports is
>> non-trivial
> Only at the (very few) commercial exchanges. The vast majority
> are free or of trivial expense.
by count of small 10/100 switches or by traffic volume?
it costs to build, maintain, and manage an exchange which carries
significant traffic. costs get recovered. life is simple.
randy