PAIX

Sat Nov 23 13:31:43 UTC 2002

Michael C. Wu wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:00:48AM +0200, Petri Helenius scribbled:
>| 
>| > I'm putting the number closer to 40 (the "NFL cities") right now, and
>| > 150 by the end of the decade, and ultimately any "metro" with population
>| > greater than 50K in a 100 sq Km area will need a neutral exchange point
>| > (even if it's 1500 sqft in the bottom of a bank building.)
>| 
>| What application will require this dense peering?
>
>To power the IPv6 networks of refridgerators, ovens, and light switches,
>  as well as your 3G video conferencing phone
>
>  
>
All of the above combined don't generate bandwith even near what a current
generation peer2peer file sharing client does.

The mentioned applications are not really delay sensitive to the sub-20ms
range either.

Pete