[Outages-discussion] Internet "backbone"

[Patrick W. Gilmore]

On Nov 21, 2011, at 5:46 AM, virendra rode <virendra.rode at outages.org> wrote:

>> But it is not strictly hierarchical.  For instance, there are some networks who buy transit which have more traffic than some transit free networks.  And if two transit free networks lose connectivity, the traffic simply stops, so there is no worry about other interconnections or POOPs "replacing them".
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> I'm sure large scale network savvy content providers will be happy to
> jump in to build a "backbone" and peer in order to improve the end-user
> experience and reduce transit costs.

You mean like LLNW, Google, Yahoo!, ....

In fact, I challenge you to find a single large content provider who did not build a backbone (besides Akamai, who don't have a backbone, but they have a different biz model).

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TTFN,
patrick