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Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement

  • From: Alec H. Peterson
  • Date: Tue Aug 25 19:04:31 1998

Robert Bowman wrote:
> 
> It will be a lot easier to incent customer to distribute, as a colocation
> provider, if we don't have to pay per Mbps that is imbalanced--and instead
> we have a direct cost associated with having to do best-exit..  I think
> pretty much anyone can understand that.

Absolutely.

Ideally, doing good content distribution would address the cost imbalance
concerns that the providers like BBN raise when peering with large content
providers.

Alec

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