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On 12 Mar 1999 13:48:41 GMT, 
newhouse at rockhead dot com <newhouse@nospam.crap> wrote:
>In article <36E8CB1C.7071173@rahul.net>,
>	Me Again <magical@rahul.net> writes:
> 
>> HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
>> 
>> Real "tier 1" backbone bandwidth providers have multiple private
>> interconnects (at geographically diverse locations) so that data moves
>> freely from one backbone to another when needed to get from/to its
>> destination.  Qwest doesn't, they rely on their "peering" at the
>> overcrowded MAEs.
>
>Your org is set to "Concentric" (apologies if you are talking about a different
>Real "tier 1" backbone) so let's go to BoardWatch 

[snip]

>So are you suggestting that; peering where lots of peering is going on is bad 
>and peering where very little peering is going on is good? 


IMHO, it's the difference between:

1) ISP1 <-> MAE <-> ISP2

and

2) ISP1 <-> BACKBONE1 <-> MAE <-> BACKBONE2 <-> ISP2

and

3) ISP1 <-> BACKBONE1 <-> Private Peer <-> BACKBONE2 <-> ISP2

#1 is often faster than #3.  #2 is always a loser.

Concentric is a borderline case.  It *has* a backbone but it's not
really a backbone provider.  It's just a big ISP.  This puts it
somewhere between 1 and 2 depending on quality of its internal
interconnects.

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