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Re: a question about the economics of peering
- From: Arman
- Date: Fri Nov 30 15:05:40 2001
Daniel Golding wrote:
>
>
.....
> Hmm. Congested public exchange points were a reality at some point in the
> past. They are now a recurrent myth, thanks to the demise of FDDI EPs and
> the rise of GigE EPs. There is little congestion, at this point. Of course,
> this could be because most Internet traffic is exchanged over private
> peering.
>
> I think that most clued folks are largely uninterested in hop-count. Latency
> is much more important.
that depends on your primary application, latency is not important for
streaming or downloads.
ak
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