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                    2019
                
            
            
                28 Jun
                
                '19
                
            
            
            
        
    
                5:59 a.m.
            
        On 28/Jun/19 01:23, Mike Hammett wrote:
I've ran into many providers where they had routers in the top 10 or 15 markets... and that was it. If you wanted a connection in South Bend or Indianapolis or New Orleans or Ohio or... you were backhauled potentially hundreds of miles to a nearby big market.
More smaller POPs reduces the tromboning.
More smaller POPs means that one POP's outage isn't as disastrous on the traffic rerouting around it.
I really dislike centralized routing. Mark.