RE: OT - Importance of Content

["Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)" <sowens () epik net>]

I agree, but as a regional player most large players won't peer with us
anyway from my discussions with them.  Maybe I'm just talking to the wrong
people...:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph T. Klein [mailto:jtk () titania net] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:00 PM
To: Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL); nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: OT - Importance of Content


Careful.

Unbalanced traffic can cause difficulties with peering. The eyeball heavy
networks will tend to peer with you but a long list of large (route table)
players will not.

--On Wednesday, 10 July 2002 13:49 -0400 "Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)"
<sowens () epik net> wrote:

> I was wondering the importance of content to IP providers. Is it 
> feasible to go after a lot of hosting companies and such as a business 
> model and greatly skew your traffic ratios to hopefully reach a 
> critical mass.  I would think at some point you would have so much 
> content that people would start to come to you for peering or to 
> purchase access to get to that content which would cause a reduction 
> in overall transit costs, but what would that critical mass be and how 
> valid is that thought?
>
> Opinions?
>
> Shane Owens



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