Subject: Re: GCI and PEER Network
From: Jim Courtney (courtney@ieee.org)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 15:10:12 AKST
I agree - traffic monitoring - what it is and where it's going - is the key
to the problem if the finances are going to work right in this situation.
I imagine it could get nearly as complicated as the switched network -
accounting, interconnect agreements, "terminating minutes", etc. Let's hope
not.
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 01:16 pm, Leif Sawyer wrote:
> Jim Courtney writes:
> > Not only that, but ISP's have to buy more bandwidth on the
> > fiber when their across-town packets are forced down to Seattle
> > and back. This is a bad situation (for consumers, not GCI) that
> > the marketplace has not yet addressed. Right now it's mostly game
> > servers - later it will be local phone service that will take a
> > beating with latency if you're not in the
> > 'big-digital-mondo-cable-bundle' plan.
> >
> > If you have most of the subscribers, you win. One day someone else
> > will figure out a way to capitalize on this situation and even
> > things out.
>
> I think that the ultimate fate lies in the future of IP telephony.
> If ISP's embrace this as a way to side-step LEC's and LD carriers, then
> they'll probably start to look at peering interconnects to decrease
> their upstream bandwidth.
>
> Of course, it's going to take a lot of monitoring and data massaging
> to even figure out what what the statistical breakdown of traffic is,
> in order to justify local NAPs, and what sort of business model you
> would need in order to pay for them.
>
> Who pays more?
>
> If ISP A, which has tons of IPtelephony traffic flowing over to ISP B,
> but ISP B has minimal originating IPtelephony traffic terminating on ISP A,
> it's not in B's interest to support the NAP. They'll want A to pay for it.
> "Hey we noticed a ton of IPt traffic terminating from you. It's probably
> chewing up your backbone. Y'all should buy a [T1] of interconnect from US
> to offload from your upstream providors!"
>
> Not that this model isn't valid today -- it's just harder to convince them
> of it because web-surfing is all entertainment. It's not toll-bypass
> telephony.
>
> Leif
> (again, my opinions, not my employers)
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