rchandra
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|  becoming typical?
Don't you think this is a harbinger of things to come? Peering and transit agreements are very typically based on roughly an equal amount of traffic transiting their interconnects in both directions. This used to make a lot of (business) sense, because otherwise, the two entities wouldn't be peers, and it is more truly like one company being a customer of the other. Over 90% of broadband is highly asymmetrical; much more downstream than upstream. So by its very nature, providers of broadband are going suck a lot more bandwidth than they will spew. That doesn't sound like peering to me.
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richk_1957
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| You're right about the symmetry
Just think for a moment - how much do you download, how much do you upload?
Most people download more.
And AOL's squeezing a couple of colleges? Who don't have a huge provider (and probably don't have a huge internet budget, either)
By the nature of the users in the colleges, there would be a closer symmetry there [more downloads, but more uploads too]
It just looks like, from my viewpoint, like goliath [AOL] picking on David |
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dnoyeB
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Re: becoming typical?
I don't think this is what a peering relationship is about. its not about sharing bandwidth. its about sharing paths and innerconnecting networks.
It should be automatic that if your users start going through the peer connection a little too much that you would find where they are connecting and get your own path there for your users sakes. If They don't do that, they will hard their users and their peering relationship.
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dnoyeB
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard. " Ecclesiastes 9:16
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