Internet diameter?

Thu Nov 22 03:58:32 UTC 2018

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now, why does it matter?

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:49 PM Aaron1 <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> Yes I agree Ross/Stephen.  I didn’t mean to overstate the CDN fact.
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> I wonder what the answer is to Bill’s question is. “average, median and
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> maximum diameter (ip hop count) of the Internet? “
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> Aaron
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> On Nov 21, 2018, at 9:44 PM, Stephen Satchell <list at satchell.net> wrote:
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> On 11/21/2018 07:32 PM, Ross Tajvar wrote:
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> I'd argue that's just content (though admittedly a lot of it). You can't
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> cache, e.g., a SIP trunk, and offices which need to connect to each other
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> can't cache one another in a CDN either.
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> I would further argue that you can't cache active Web content, like bank
> account statements, utility billing, help desk request/responses,
> equipment status, and other things that change constantly.
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