2 Jun
2001
2 Jun
'01
9:45 a.m.
Sean, Amusingly, those days did not produce the traffic ratio problem. Everyone hauled a circuit from their network to the router in Santa Clara and the traffic was symmetric. Thus there was no bandwidth*distance difference in the passed traffic. It was when multiple connection points came in that traffic differential became an issue. Those requirements were put in when the perceived center of business for the "other ISPs" was local dial connection and bandwidth times distance was used to justify the multiple connections, nationwide networks... Business changed and now the colos are facing the same arguement for being on the opposite side of the spectrum. jerry