What I got out of this is that to be an AS, you either have to be a big company, or a small company with a lot of connections. There was a lot of stuff that rel

What I got out of this is that to be an AS, you either have to be a big company, or a small company with a lot of connections. There was a lot of stuff that relied on his friends helping him out. What if you don't have industry connections? You will never get the peering agreements needed by an AS unless you pay someone big bucks to peer with you.