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> ] > Or, possible some small providers buy a multi-megabit circuit from a > ] > large provider who gives them transit. The small provider then connects > ] > at a single NAP and picks up bilateral peering sessions with a bunch > ] > of people there. The result is offloading traffic from their > ] > "transit link", which stands a good chance of being priced as a > ] > "burstable" link. (pay for what you use) That gives the small > ] > provider an economic incentive to operate in this manner. > > ] Quite a few CIX members operate this way. The interesting question in my > ] mind is whether the "big guys" (defaultless nets, for the purposes of this > ] discussion) think that this represents unfair competition or not. > > We've a defaultless net, but I'm not sure that I'm considered a > 'Big Guy'. Hell, we only route 1% of the internet, but maybe if I > lost my aggregates I could be bigger ;) > > The hidden metric that davec above doesn't consider is latency. > > If I peer at a NAP, I forgo the latency my upstream 'multi-megabit > circuit' incurs. Hey, depends on your upstream provider and the NAP you're talking about... for some "Large" providers and at least one NAP, the reverse is true. =-) davec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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