At 12:44 PM 9/17/97 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
Kent W. England wrote:
At that point a pizza parlor owner says to himself "two out of every five of my customers are on the Internet. Perhaps I need a web page." And, suddenly, pizza on the Net makes a lot of sense and the traffic patterns shift. As the density grows to 90%, local traffic becomes dominant over distant traffic.
Georgaphically local, not topologically.
A *big* difference.
Unless we're willing to go back to regulated monopolies geographical locality makes little difference in overall traffic patterns.
--vadim
Not true, it is when geographical locality of traffic becomes significant (lets say 10 percent of the traffic originating in a city is destined for the same city, or even 5 percent, or maybe even 2 percent), that it makes sense to make a very very strong push into many more local exchanges. I see this eventuality as inevitable, and as such believe that encouraging local exchanges to be of prime importance to our ability to route traffic for our customers both inexpensively and quickly. ************************************************************** Justin W. Newton voice: +1-650-482-2840 Senior Network Architect fax: +1-650-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net Legislative and Policy Director, ISP/C http://www.ispc.org "The People You Know. The People You Trust." **************************************************************