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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Exodus/C&W Depeering
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> You mean Exodus are well connected and C&W limit themselves which gives
> longer paths and increased latency.
Longer paths definitely, increased jitter probably, increased latency
probably, increased loss possibly.
C&W obviously have to have a lot of peering as well, since it's all they
have to sell to their customers. However, their peering tends to be
limited to a small number of peers to whom they have large connections,
whereas Exodus had a large number of peers to whom they had medium-sized
connections. So the average hop-count and as-path length for the Internet
as a whole are both increased by this action, and nearly all paths
increase in length for Exodus customers. So yes, Exodus customers are the
big losers in the wake of this.
-Bill
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