Elijah
'rent' for the trunk lines between the ISP and the neighboring peers.
Ah, yes, I was thinking purely in terms of logical connectivity in data rooms (Telco Jails as I heard it called in an ISP meeting today) and over WANs on the one hand and a single or n+1 tail circuit from the ISPs main location. Carefully choosing geographically closer peers would indeed reduce tail prices as this are mainly a factor of distance (well outside metros). Good point, sorry. Ren -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of elijah wright Sent: 26 May 2004 17:44 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: 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 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l