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> > At 12:44 PM 9/17/97 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote: > >Kent W. England wrote: > > > >> At > >> that point a pizza parlor owner says to himself "two out of every five of > >> my customers are on the Internet. Perhaps I need a web page." And, > >> suddenly, pizza on the Net makes a lot of sense and the traffic patterns > >> shift. As the density grows to 90%, local traffic becomes dominant over > >> distant traffic. > > > >Georgaphically local, not topologically. > > > >A *big* difference. > > > >Unless we're willing to go back to regulated monopolies geographical > >locality makes little difference in overall traffic patterns. > > > >--vadim > > Not true, it is when geographical locality of traffic becomes significant > (lets say 10 percent of the traffic originating in a city is destined for > the same city, or even 5 percent, or maybe even 2 percent), that it makes > sense to make a very very strong push into many more local exchanges. I > see this eventuality as inevitable, and as such believe that encouraging > local exchanges to be of prime importance to our ability to route traffic > for our customers both inexpensively and quickly. > > Justin W. Newton I agree that geographical locality of traffic is important, but a majority of the local traffic won't be going through these exchanges until the big backbones compromise on their peering policies, and exchange "local pop" sets of routes in peering sessions. I think we can prevent people from pointing their default routes to these interfaces by enthusiastic application of spiked LARTs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew W. Smith ** [email protected] ** Network Engineer ** 1-888-NEOSOFT ** "Opportunities multiply as they are seized" - Sun Tzu ** ** http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/staff/andrew ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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