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Easing Backbone Traffic By Scanning The Net
A reader writes "Of the schemes being concocted to ease traffic among Internet backbone providers, InterNap Network Services Corp. may have the most ambitious: a setup that bypasses the peering process entirely by scanning the Net for optimal routes.
EEtimes has the full story on their plan."
You are 100% completely wrong, on all accounts:
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1) They don't "lay connections" between web sites. They pay for peering with large BB providers.
2) They do some really funky stuff to BGP to make things more efficient and redundant. But it's a secret
3) "Forcing people to pay"? Uhh, it's called selling something, and you study it in econ.
Why is it that every gee-whiz article these days has 50 people sign on immediately and say "whoopdeedoo"? I understand being a jaded technologist, but sometimes someone does something cool, and not EVERYONE on the planet knows about it. Don't dig it, don't read techie news sites...
They run mostly linux, too. Check their GPL policy.
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This is nothing new. InterNAP has been doing this for years now. Which is why they're so goddamn expensive. But I must say that they offer the *best* data pipes you can possibly get. They peer with 8-9 of the largest providers in each PNAP and your traffic goes to the provider that has the best route. They do an exhaustive systematic search through the global BGP routing table and pick and choose their routes individually. I would assume their route-maps are freaking gigantic. Their technology is unfortunately not real time... (yet. ;) Anyone who knows how BGP works can figure out how they do this.. it seems rather simple (I deal with them on a regular basis) but they came up with it first.
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I've got some tinfoil and a ten-watt smurf nightlight for you, and I'm prepared to undercut their offer. Is it a deal?