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Re: Peering and Network Cost
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 13:23:29 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Dave Taht" <dave.taht () gmail com>
Two things I am curious about are 1) What is the measured benefit of moving a netflix server into your local ISP network and 2) does anyone measure "cross town latency". If we lived in a world where skype/voip/etc transited the local town only, what sort of latencies would be see within an ISP and within a cross-connect from, say a gfiber to a comcast? Once upon a time I'd heard that most phone calls were within 6 miles of the person's home, but I don't remember the breakdown of those call percentages (?), and certainly the old-style phone system was achieving very low latencies for those kinds of traffic.
The lack of decent geographic locality of reference on the Internet has bothered me for some time; it's often presented as an *effect* of the eyeballs/servers nature of the net, but I'm not at all sure it's not more a cause of it -- at least at this late date. The problem, of course, is that carriers make money off transit; it's not in their commercial best interest to unload those links; it's very similar to the reason my best friend's second semester pre-law textbooks cost her nearly $1000; the people selecting them have no interest in the price, since they don't pay it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
Current thread:
- Re: Peering and Network Cost James Bensley (May 21)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Rafael Possamai (May 21)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Mike Hammett (May 21)
- RE: Peering and Network Cost Eric Dugas (May 21)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost James Bensley (May 21)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Mike Hammett (May 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Dave Taht (May 21)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Mark Tinka (May 21)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Anthony Kosednar (May 21)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Jay Ashworth (May 23)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost joel jaeggli (May 25)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Mark Tinka (May 21)
- Re: Peering and Network Cost Rafael Possamai (May 21)