I'd guestimate that local peering and stuff accounts for as much as 5 to 15% of our traffic.
Perhaps someone who is actually running a local exchange can report on how much traffic they are carrying that is now not being sent to a MAE-equivalent? I think that actual experience and hard data will surprise us all.
--tep
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