30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
12:51 a.m.
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:34:52 PST, Seth Mattinen said:
My take on this is that settlement free peering only remains free as long as it is beneficial to both sides, i.e. equal amounts of traffic exchanged.
Equal *value* of traffic exchanged. A network that has a lot of eyeballs may be willing to accept some imbalance to connect to a popular source of content, and that content source is equally motivated to cut some slack on the ratio to get good access to more eyeballs.