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On 12 Mar 1999 20:30:06 GMT, Miguel Cruz <mnc@diana.law.yale.edu> wrote:
>Eric Edwards <ese002@news9.exile.org> wrote:
>>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
>
>I don't see how #1 isn't an apple to #2 and #3's oranges, unless your ISP
>also provides the service of flying your clients and servers to the same
>city so they don't have to go through a backbone.

Well, this *is* ba.internet.  Clients and servers *are* often in the
same city.  The exchanges work well in those cases.  It's a bit fuzzier
for large ISP's with private backbones (like Concentric).  I expect
backbones that wish to provide service for other ISP's to use private
peering.

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