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Re: Sunday, January 22, 2006
One of the things that bothers me about this argument is that Bell South and Verizon, AREN'T EVEN TEIR 1 internet providers. That means their connectivity is not relevant to the running of the internet as a whole. They aren't doing any of the real internet traffic heavy lifting (OC-192, DWDM carrier to carrier type stuff). Take a handy look at this list of backbone providers: http://scoreboard.keynote.com/scoreboard/Main.aspx?Login=Y&Username=public&Password=public These are the companies who's peering (traffic exchange agreements) in the US drive the internet. When Verizon, or Bell South say they are going to meter access, they mean meter / degrade it to their end points, i.e... the customers who are already paying for DSL service. Which in fact means that the pipe has ALREADY been paid for. I can't stress this enough: The only traffic that Bell South and Verizon carry from Google, Yahoo, et all... IS TRAFFIC THAT IS SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED BY PAYING CUSTOMERS. Frankly AT&T / SBC is the only one that we need to be concerned about on this list, however, peering with AT&T is such a nightmare to pure traffic players, they might be content not having to deal with them. Google and company should get together, and blackhole the Verizon, Bell South IP blocks for a day or two... We'll see how quickly the telcos change their minds then. There are responses to this message:
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