RE: Internet diameter?

2018-11-22 Thread Keith Medcalf
To get back to the original question regarding the "diameter" of the Internet, it would appear to me that we are easily looking at about 30 to 40 hops just within North America -- and easily double that to reach the rest of the Internet outside of North America. Of course, the "Top 5 Channels

Re: Internet diameter?

2018-11-22 Thread Mike Hammett
" Eventually they discovered that it was more cost efficient to actually provide the customer with what the customer had purchased." Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Big content has been making this more complicated. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: 350 E Cermak

2018-11-22 Thread Mike Hammett
Equinix is the most popular with TelX bringing up second place. Both have expensive cross connects. There are others, but they aren't relevant for interconnection. Intra-building connectivity is damn expensive. https://peeringdb.com/advanced_search?address1__contains=350&city=Chicago&reftag=

350 E Cermak

2018-11-22 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hey all, Looking for some clue on how things work, and who’s who for colo at 350 E Cermak. Looking at possibly putting a rack in somewhere there for a Peering/Transit/PNI POP. Is there a list somewhere of colo facilities in that building? Also, how does it work there in terms if inter-colo,

RE: Internet diameter?

2018-11-22 Thread Keith Medcalf
>> I'd argue that's just content (though admittedly a lot of it). "just static content" would be more accurate ... >I would further argue that you can't cache active Web content, like >bank account statements, utility billing, help desk request/responses, >equipment status, and other things that

Re: Internet diameter?

2018-11-22 Thread t...@pelican.org
On Thursday, 22 November, 2018 05:30, "William Herrin" said: > Good question! It matters because a little over two decades ago we had > some angst as equipment configured to emit a TTL of 32 stopped being > able to reach everybody. Today we have a lot of equipment configured > to emit a TTL of