RE: Exodus/C&W Depeering

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Chris Flores wrote:
> <snip>
> Should be interesting to see how this impacts the ability to reach
> sites hosted at Exodus.
> </snip>
>
> nothing complicated. just means you will utilize a transit provider to reach
> Exodus hosted sites instead of direct public peer. unless you privately peer
> with C&W. the bottom line - it will now cost you more to reach Exodus hosted
> sites...

Since Exodus is mostly a webhoster, do they have an asymetric traffic
flow.  Isn't bulk of the bandwidth is outbound from Exodus.  Won't this
just increase the distance and AS count for Exodus outbound traffic,
making Exodus hosting even less desirable?