OT - Importance of Content

Wed Jul 10 18:00:10 UTC 2002

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)" <sowens at epik.net> 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
>
>
>

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