On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:19 PM, <rucasbrown@hushmail.com> wrote:
why don't ISPs peer with every other ISP?
1. For those who can pull it off, getting paid twice for each packet is better than getting paid once. 2. Your service has a value per byte and a cost per byte. If your value is less than your cost, you go out of business. Open peering facilitates greater consumption on the part of your customers. Unless you're structured to charge them more for that increased consumption, it reduces the value of each byte you pass. Unless you're peering with someone in the same or higher tier (who you'd otherwise have to pay for transit) the odds are you're reducing the value of your bytes faster than you're reducing your cost. Personally, I'd love to see 95th percentile billing applied universally with everybody getting a large pipe the same way everybody gets a 200 amp electrical service. The problem with that notion is that A) consumers are hooked on "unlimited," and B) your toaster doesn't get hacked and start consuming 200 amps all day without your knowledge. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004