Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com> wrote: As is, practically all Internet traffic is long-haul.

Folks doing part-time telecommuting are likely to generate traffic with very high geographic locality; unfortunately, in a lot of cases, because of routing nonoptimalities, they wind up generating "long-haul" traffic instead..

Yes, although most employers either provide their private dial-in facilities or get a good "package" deal from a local ISP on behalf of its employees. Still, Web constitutes the bulk of traffic... I do not argue that local exchanges between regionals are entirely worthless; it's that they won't have large impact on what happens at "large" exchange points (or private interconnects). --vadim