----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Taht" <dave.t...@gmail.com>
> Two things I am curious about are 1) What is the measured benefit of > moving a netflix server into your local ISP network > > and 2) does anyone measure "cross town latency". If we lived in a > world where skype/voip/etc transited the local town only, > what sort of latencies would be see within an ISP and within a > cross-connect from, say a gfiber to a comcast? > > Once upon a time I'd heard that most phone calls were within 6 miles > of the person's home, but I don't remember the breakdown of those call > percentages (?), and certainly the old-style phone system was > achieving very low latencies for those kinds of traffic. The lack of decent geographic locality of reference on the Internet has bothered me for some time; it's often presented as an *effect* of the eyeballs/servers nature of the net, but I'm not at all sure it's not more a cause of it -- at least at this late date. The problem, of course, is that carriers make money off transit; it's not in their commercial best interest to unload those links; it's very similar to the reason my best friend's second semester pre-law textbooks cost her nearly $1000; the people selecting them have no interest in the price, since they don't pay it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
