Sprint peering policy

Mon Jul 1 17:36:00 UTC 2002

> Here's a fun exercise:  Drop your 5 busiest peers, and see if your
> operating costs a) increase, b) decrease, or c) remain the same.

If your full cost of peering with UUNET (including things such as
depreciation) comes to $400 per mbit/sec and via a promisig local ISP you
can get transit to UUNET at $200 per mbit/sec, your costs will decrease.
Just because the IP is free with peering does not mean that it costs $0 to
peer.

Alex