Well actually the "Big 11" ISPs which were refferred to in the article do
the same thing with each other. Most of the big ISPs privately peer with
each other (avoiding overcrowded MAEs etc.) and having been doing so for
some time.
Do a few traceroutes and see. If you are not directly connected to one of
the "Big 11" or more correctly "Tier One" ISPs then you are probably
connected to a smaller DSP (downstream provider) who is directly connected
to them. You hand your traffic to youre DSP, they hand it to their
upstream ISP who in turn hands it to whichever Tierone ISP the destination
address hangs off of (or something like that).
There are a lot of smaller fish who still move their traffic through the
MAEs (which tend to be slow and congested) and the Tier One ISPs still
maintain a presence at the MAEs, they just don't peer with everyone there.
The thing to keep in mind is that traffic on the net tends to be
asynchronous so its important that both the outbound and the return path
for a connection have ample available bandwidth. This is what drives a lot
of the peering relationships the Tier One ISPs enter into; a garantee that
both sides have a robust coast to coast network.
If you bought a direct connection from a Tier one ISP you should get the
same level (if not better) of throughput you would get from Internap
My $.02
At 09:57 AM 09/28/2000 -0700, Erick B. wrote:
>I looked at that article, and it sounds kind of like a
>old approach to a new problem. Go to X company who has
>access to everything and you'll be set.
>
>In the long term, it's going to cost lots of $ to
>maintain a connection to every backbone ISP and
>associated costs with each of those connections. I
>don't know what they charge their customers, but for
>local companies it may be cheaper in the long term to
>run fiber and connect directly to their network
>perhaps.
>
>--- Ejay Hire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It kind of violates the way it's supposed to work
>> though. If everyone skips
>> off to an alternate backbone service, Will we still
>> keep upgrading the
>> existing (free/mostly free) backbone?
>>
>>
>> ----Original Message Follows----
>> From: Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: Priscilla Oppenheimer
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "Nigel Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Easing Internet backbone
>> traffic..thoughts..!
>> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:23:55 -0700
>>
>> Sounds like a creative way to optimize traffic
>> forwarding on the Internet.
>> Seems a bit like MPLS, but more real-time.
>>
>> Locating the company in Seattle is probably a good
>> idea. Not only is Amazon
>> in Seattle, but maybe they'll get Microsoft as a
>> customer too?
>>
>> Hopefully some of the gurus will comment also.
>> Thanks for telling us about
>> this interesting article.
>>
>> Priscilla
>>
>> At 11:17 PM 9/27/00, Nigel Taylor wrote:
>> >Hi All,
>> >
>> >http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000926S0089
>> >
>> >I was reading this article over at EE Times and was
>> wondering if you folks
>> >had any thoughts on what this means or how it
>> applies to the already
>> >existant/non-existant BGP routing policies between
>> the Major
>> >players(digex, UUNet, MCI etc....) Howard, I'm
>> really interesting in yuor
>> >thoughts on if this could be a solution to the
>> Internet routing problem
>> >seeing the current inexperience and knowledge of
>> BGP in the use of the
>> >protocol.
>
>
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