The Great Exchange

Sat May 30 04:52:12 UTC 1998

Our current average suggests about 10% of our total traffic volume stays
within the Austin metro area.  I suspect that this may climb as
high as 15% with more of the population on the net as a percentage of
the total population, and due to the several examples I have of
the direct competative advantage of local peering for local providers
and local content offerings.
At least until the social basis for communication changes to the extent
that people prefer to talk to people they don't know v. people they
do know.

In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980527162433.21541L-100000 at iago.nac.net>, Al Reuben w
rites:
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>I'd guestimate that local peering and stuff accounts for as much as 5 to
>15% of our traffic. 
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>
>> Perhaps someone who is actually running a local exchange can report on
>> how much traffic they are carrying that is now not being sent to a
>> MAE-equivalent?  I think that actual experience and hard data will
>> surprise us all.
>> 
>> --tep
>> 
>> 
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