On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Sean Donelan wrote:
So the question becomes, if I do this again, how do I choose the six
By using publically available traffic stats like: PEAK EXCHANGE 750 Mbps http://www.mfsdatanet.com:80/MAE/west.giga.overlay.html 750 Mbps http://www.mfsdatanet.com:80/MAE/east.giga.overlay.html 180 Mbps http://www.pacbell.com/products/business/fastrak/networking/nap/stats/graph_... 110 Mbps? http://nap.aads.net/~nap-stat/AADS.NAP/atm/970325.html (This looks broken) Interesting note: MAE-WEST is now starting to handle more traffic than MAE-EAST. If my memory serves me correct, early last year MAE-WEST was doing something like 350 Mbps and MAE-EAST was doing 550 Mbps.
Or is the entire thing irrelevant, because everyone is moving to private bilateral connections. And the important thing is how many providers does someone peer
Lacking the ability to find out who peers with who (except by looking through the RADB :) and the ability to know private flow data (except for ours) a rough metric to answer this is the amount of daily traffic handled by an exchange (as shown above) and the number of routes seen by the routing arbiter there (from http://www.merit.edu/ipma/routing_table/). Based on the continuing growth in both members and traffic of the exchange points, I'd say economics drives exchange points. Mike. +------------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -------------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 408 282 1540 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting & Co-location Fax 408 971 3340 | | mleber@he.net http://www.he.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+