Re: [Air-l] Re: Data

Transit the bigger player sells to the smaller one. So hand- off to a peer reduces overall cost. Though I’m not sure it impacts data line lease as the traffic from people’s computers to ‘the net’ i.e. the peering point, is the same.

this happened a little more often when lines were more expensive - in many cases, ISPs (including one i worked for briefly in the mid-90s) would carefully choose their peers in order to minimize the amount of money being paid out to the telco in 'rent' for the trunk lines between the ISP and the neighboring peers. such an action was saving between 7 and 10,000 dollars a month - not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but a ton of cash for a mom-and-pop small ISP. elijah