Re: AOL & Cogent

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

Consider this example: If I buy 100Mbit of transit from AboveNet in IAD, odds are you're gonna peer off 75% of my traffic locally, without it ever having touched expensive longhaul circuits. If I buy 100Mbit of paid peering, odds are you're going to be burning longhaul circuits carrying most of it all over the world, plus the same longhaul carrying it all back to me.

So are any ISPs pricing transit and/or paid-peering bandwidth (significantly) lower if purchased at an exchange point? Pete.