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Re: Question about peering


From: "Luke S. Crawford" <lsc () prgmr com>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 18:35:15 -0400

On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 06:16:30PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
Sometimes making the AS path as short as possible makes a lot of sense
(e.g. when trying to get an anycast network to do the right thing),
but assumptions that peering results in lower costs are less true
every day.

I keep reading people say that.  But wouldn't the same forces that push 
down the per-megabit cost of transit also push down the per-megabit
cost of peering?  


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