Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement

[owen () DeLong SJ CA US (Owen DeLong)]

> Owen DeLong wrote:
> > Actually, if the content provider simply honors MEDs, that should cover most
> > of the issue.  Then, the long haul is done across the content providers'
> > backbone anyway.
>
> Then you get into address aggregation issues that have already been
> discussed before.
>
> The way I see it, an intelligent content distribution scheme addresses the
> vast majority of these concerns.
>
> So, a question to the large web farms.  Why is it that the largest web sites
> still seem to be hosted out of a single data center?
Where do you get your data?  It seems to me that the bulk of the largest web
sites with which I am familiar are located in at least two datacenters.

> Alec
Owen
Senior Network Engineer
Exodus

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