economics of peering and transit -- long interview with Bill Woodcock and others

Tue Sep 3 20:13:14 UTC 2002

I have just published part one of a two part issue on the economics 
of  peering and transit and IX's.  Included is a two part interview 
with Bill Woodcock who elaborates in great detail on the peering and 
transit methodology that he has been presenting at the last couple of 
Nanog meetings.  Also included are four tables  with January 31 2002 
Netflow data from Zocalo.  The tables are generated with software 
done for Zocalo at Agilent by Alex Tudor.  Bill goes through each 
table and explains the meaning of the data.  This includes an 
explanation of Synthetic Path Analysis in tables 3 and 4 which as I 
understand it is really the first published explanation of this 
approach.  The interviews with Bill explain over all how ISPs can 
begun to mold tools into a bandwidth cost management system.

My November issue also includes a long and detailed over view of the 
nasty consequences of the current Tier One oligopoly.  The overview 
is an essay by Farooq Hussain in which he identifies the Internet 
Core backbones (see December 5, 2001 announcement of Equinix's 
Internet Core Service) as UUNET, Level 3, Qwest, ATT, Sprint, Cable & 
Wireless and Genuity.  Andrew Odlyzko adds comments.

Thanks to Zocalo I am running a private mail list where discussion of 
the Woodcock and related methodology, exchanges, peering, bandwidth 
cost and the like is on going.  In addition to Bill Woodcock active 
participants include Avi Freedman,  Phil Weller (Fast net CTO), Mike 
Hughes, Alex Tudor, Stephen Stuart, Phillip Smith, Farooq Hussain, 
Andrew Odlyzko and Keith Mitchell. If there are other Peering 
Coordinators here (or folk playing that role) who would like to 
contribute to the discussion (warning ....it is for publication) 
please email woody at pchnet and cook at cookreport.com stating the nature 
of you interest. Results of these discussions and other data will 
come out round about October 1.

For the table of contents, complete introduction and Andrew Odlyzko's 
comments please visit
  http://cookreport.com/11.08.shtml
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Economics of Peering, Transit & IXs
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