Re: The Great Exchange

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

At 01:44 PM 5/27/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> "Pickett, David" writes:
> > 1) More needs to be done to leverage locality of traffic
>
> In the long run, why are we assuming there will be locality of
> traffic?
>
> It is true that the old PSTN has locality of traffic, but it doesn't
> have flat rate pricing, or the usage patterns that the Internet has. I 
> argue that users are rarely more likely to be trying to download a web 
> page from near to their homes than from far away. If there is
> locality, it is probably weak, and in the long run would only account
> for a fraction of the traffic.

You seems to be ignoring the single largest cause of rtaffic, e-mail. There
is plenty of locality there.
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