The large ISPs and Peering
Steven J. Sobol
sjsobol at NorthShoreTechnologies.net
Fri Jul 27 22:25:09 UTC 2001
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> There is a fundamental business here in that ISP's are _required_ to
> do business with each other in order to make the Internet work as users
> expect. ISP's will always have business ties to each other, in the
> form of paid/free transit/peering. Making that go away makes it all
> cease to work, completely.
I have to point out an interesting similarity between Big Oil and Big
Telecomm.
The Oil and ISP industries are the only two major industries I know of
where your biggest competitors are quite often also your biggest
customers.
In the oil industry, you see it all the time with the company-owned retail
stores versus the dealers - but who do the dealers buy from? Right.
It makes for some rather interesting business relationships, IMHO.
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