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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: a little thought on exchanging traffic
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 09:51:54AM -0400, bob bownes wrote: > It sounds alot like the multi-tiered proposal I put forth about 3 years > ago to build local exchanges on top of frame networks in certain cities, > then interconnect cities to regional exchanges, then interconnect the > regional exchanges. That architecture takes advantage of traffic > locality as well as providing a path out for non-local traffic. If the > individual regional exchanges have a small enough number of > participants, they are easier to manage, and should one participant have > alot of traffic going to regional or inter-regional exchange, you simply > install a PVC to there. There is some breakpoint for scaling however... Naaaah, Bob. That would mean that there might actually be some geographic locality of reference to Internet traffic -- you know, my telnet from Tampa to Auburndale, Florida, might actually not go via Orlando, Atlanta, DC, and MAE-East in New Jersey. And that would never be acceptable. Just ask Sprint, AT&T, GTE/BBN, and MCI. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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