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Re: Peering versus Transit

  • From: Dorian R. Kim
  • Date: Mon Sep 30 01:52:59 1996 
On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:

> Finally, most IXP operators do not seem to be diligent in explaining
> to new IXP members to be that being at IXP is by no means a guarantee
> that anybody would want to peer.

That would be putting it rather mildly. In fact some of the IXP sales droids
perpetuate the myth that connecting a _single_ IXP = connectivity to Internet
and mislead some poor clueless folks into buying IXP's services.

-dorian

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