North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The early days of peering
On Sat, 02 June 2001, Jerry Scharf wrote: > It was when multiple connection points came in that traffic differential > became an issue. Those requirements were put in when the perceived center of > business for the "other ISPs" was local dial connection and bandwidth times > distance was used to justify the multiple connections, nationwide networks... > Business changed and now the colos are facing the same arguement for being on > the opposite side of the spectrum. In "the early days" UUNET was a net exporter of traffic due to its original business the UUCP/USENET hub and hosting FTP.UU.NET. With USENET, one message went into UUNET, and they broadcast thousands of copies to their UUCP/USENET customers. Likewise, with FTP one copy of X11 was uploaded to ftp.uu.net and thousands of copies were downloaded. |