Re: The Great Exchange

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>]

On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 04:55:46PM -0400, Scott Huddle wrote:
> This is all WAG, tho.  I'll argue that you can never measure this
> accurately from the network (how much traffic did you *not* count?,
> how much traffic was delivered on campus?  is the site multihomed?), 
> you have to measure it from the edge.
>
> To really test this you need sampling from the users, ala the Nielson 
> method and knowledge of geography for IP addresses.  Market opportunity 
> anyone?  

The problem there, as I at least alluded to in my previous posting is that,
unless you already _have_ the local exchange, there's no was at the
edge router level to log the "local" traffic vs the "remote" traffic --
you could only do it in a local exchange environment by virtue of the
fact that theexchange existed in the first palce, to give the locals a
place to exchange routing info.

Cheers,
-- jra
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