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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:31:25PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > > Who gets hurt more if a hole is created due to de-peering? > > > > you do. c&w loses .00001 of the net. you lose .02. next question. > > > > randy > > Not so fast. While each of his customers is more inconvenienced than each > c&w customer, c&w has more customers. The net inconvenience (total number of > people inconvenienced multiplied by the average inconvenience to each) might > be nearly the same on both sides. As an added bonus, he has someone else to > blame. That depends. Somebody that small (0.0001) is not going to be transit free... so there isn't really a hole created. Sure, the smaller guy is going to be paying more on transit rather than peering, but C&W customers probably won't notice a thing, other than some relief on the congested pipes to the public peering points. -- John Payne http://www.sackheads.org/jpayne/ [email protected] http://www.sackheads.org/uce/ Fax: +44 870 0547954 To send me mail, use the address in the From: header
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