On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
I think the argument is undermined by the fact that peering in Europe is in a fairly dismal state. Were there a MAE-{London, Paris, Prague} I somehow think that the big five at least might throw a T3 or two over.
"MAE London" is called the LINX and the T3s have been thrown over. We peer with 30 other networks at the LINX in London, including GSL (Sprintlink), Pipex (uu.net), and EUnet GB (AKA PSI). If you watch the flow of cash, what happens is that first the UK company pays a fortune to the American company for bandwidth, then the American company buys the European company. Someone more cynical than I might even say that the US company has used the UK company's money to buy the UK company.
Until that happens, nothing will change. Maybe as access points start springing up in Japan, the Phillipines, etc., the roadblocks to such a cooperative project will start to be removed.
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