Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

Tue Apr 20 12:45:03 UTC 2004

The question is too simplistic ... It is not (simply) a matter of small
vs. big or being on your own network from source-to-destination. Peering
is an enabler ... and gives all an opportunity to share content globally
... kinda' fundamental to the Internet consortium. 

Is your question, 'Since fiber is so cheap, why doesn't everyone build
an autonomous, facilities-based, global "Internet" network that competes
for narrowband/broadband "pullers" of data and hosting/data centers/etc.
for content providers ("pulled-fromers" or "pushers" of data)?

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Py [mailto:michel at arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us] 
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:46 PM
To: Gordon Cook; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

> Peering?  Who needs peering if transit can be
> had for $20 per megabit per second?

The smaller guys that don't buy transit buy the gigabit.

Michel.