I agree, but as a regional player most large players won't peer with us anyway from my discussions with them. Maybe I'm just talking to the wrong people...:-)
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph T. Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:00 PM To: Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT - Importance of Content Careful. Unbalanced traffic can cause difficulties with peering. The eyeball heavy networks will tend to peer with you but a long list of large (route table) players will not. --On Wednesday, 10 July 2002 13:49 -0400 "Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering the importance of content to IP providers. Is it > feasible to go after a lot of hosting companies and such as a business > model and greatly skew your traffic ratios to hopefully reach a > critical mass. I would think at some point you would have so much > content that people would start to come to you for peering or to > purchase access to get to that content which would cause a reduction > in overall transit costs, but what would that critical mass be and how > valid is that thought? > > Opinions? > > Shane Owens > > > -- Joseph T. Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Why do you continue to use that old Usenet style signature?" -- anon
