At 11:08 PM 10/26/96 +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote:
If companies like Global Sprintlink, Cable and Wireless, etc, are going into non-US peering locations, then it is already changing.
Yes it is already changing. But as far as I can see, Global SprintLink represents the old US-centric model: GSL is the international arm of SprintLink and essentially sells bandwidth into the States. C&W is setting itself up as a global backbone provider.
Global SprintLink (now called Global-One) peers locally in most countries in which they have POPs with the intention to peer in every country. Their plan is to sell local access, with traffic exchange at the local national and regional level without resorting to backhauling to the US. Andy