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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


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