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Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speedpublicly available?]

  • From: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
  • Date: Sat Jul 03 13:04:55 2004

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote:


no.  in the first case, you're just hiding the incremental costs.
eventually, some bean counter is gonna want to recover them, and
then folk get quite unhappy.

What costs are you referring to? You basically need a few hours time per month from engineers and billing department. This for an exchange that has 20 ISPs connected to it. The amount of traffic isn't really a factor, but the one I know of and am part of running carries multi-gigabit.
Does the person that sweeps the floor do so for free?  And supply the
broom?

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