Re: AOL & Cogent

[Pete Kruckenberg <pete () kruckenberg com>]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> Consider this example: If I buy 100Mbit of transit from
> AboveNet in IAD, odds are you're gonna peer off 75% of
> my traffic locally, without it ever having touched
> expensive longhaul circuits. If I buy 100Mbit of paid
> peering, odds are you're going to be burning longhaul
> circuits carrying most of it all over the world, plus
> the same longhaul carrying it all back to me.

So are any ISPs pricing transit and/or paid-peering
bandwidth (significantly) lower if purchased at an exchange
point?

Pete.