Once upon a time, Brandon Martin <lists.na...@monmotha.net> said: > I guess what I'm getting at is that it sounds like, if you cannot > source the content locally to the peering link, there's not likely > to be an internal connection to the same site from somewhere else > within the Akamai network to deliver that content and, instead, the > target network should expect it to come in over the "public > Internet" via some other connection. Is that accurate?
I believe this is true of multiple content networks. For example, we peer with Amazon in a couple of locations, but a significant amount of traffic frmo their AS comes across transit rather than peering. In old terms, this is "hot potato" routing - where the source gets the traffic out of their network as soon as possible, rather than spend internal resources to carry it as close to the destination as they can. -- Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net>
