===== Jeff Young previously wrote: ====
if internetMCI decides that we should or should not peer with another network the decision is made purely on traffic flows. if coast to coast traffic moves over our network twice between ourselves and the peer, that's not a peer. if the peer has a number of nap connections and a ds3 ld packet network, that's a peer.
Definitely 100% agree. Now think further, a global network with local peers all over the place... hmm... how much international bandwidth that might cost?
the practice that you refer to as 'unwise' keeps us from losing our shirts in an already-too-competitive marketplace.
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