27 May
1998
27 May
'98
1:44 p.m.
"Pickett, David" writes:
1) More needs to be done to leverage locality of traffic
In the long run, why are we assuming there will be locality of traffic? It is true that the old PSTN has locality of traffic, but it doesn't have flat rate pricing, or the usage patterns that the Internet has. I argue that users are rarely more likely to be trying to download a web page from near to their homes than from far away. If there is locality, it is probably weak, and in the long run would only account for a fraction of the traffic. Perry