Ungodly packet loss rates

Tue Oct 22 23:29:07 UTC 1996

>> While there is no difference from a technology perspective,
>> there's also no benefit to be gained by interconnecting large
>> networks at a public (as opposed to private) interconnects.
>
>Sure there is.  Running one larger interconnect has the potential to
>be much less expensive and easier to run than many smaller ones.
>Economy of scale...

unless, you happen to be one of the major networks, and there are
a hundred people each feeding you say, 5M, and all of the sudden
you have to deal with 500M over one link/fddi port.  

Also, just to play devil's advocate, just what exactly is the definition
of "peer"?  Who is a peer to who?  Is network A (with 200 routes) a
peer to Network B (with 15,000 routes)?

Chris