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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BBN/GTEI
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 08:42:34PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > ALL traffic passing between peered providers is BY DEFINITION sourced by a > TRANSIT customer of one provider and sunk by a TRANSIT CUSTOMER of the other > network. The correlary to this is that all traffic passing between peered > providers was REQUESTED by one of the transit customers of one of those > networks, who PAID for that transit to be provided to them! There can be no 'request' without associated 'acceptance' of that requet. Therefore we have two 'half-links' where the content provider thinks it beneficial to pay for the other half-link in order to get its traffic delivered to the content consumer paying the other half. A corporate website covers its cost of the half-link in product sales while a more serious content provider sells subscriptions. A colo charges the website publisher not only for rack space etc. but also to provide the half-link to content consumer. So the colo has the fees and will pay if peering is asymmetric. -- [email protected] fishpool creations ltd http://www.kasvua.org/~toivotuo/ http://www.fishpool.fi/
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