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Feels like there would be some middle ground, if the various ISPs were working together as a conglomerate and caching at various regional peering points. I sup
by tyingq 5y ago
Feels like there would be some middle ground, if the various ISPs were working together as a conglomerate and caching at various regional peering points. I suppose that's dangerous ground legally though.
- judge2020 5y agoThe bigger issue with that is someone still needs to buy those hard drives and pay personnel to manager the hardware. The solution everyone came up with was to widely expand peering and put in 10 or 40 gig links at IXs, which keeps everyone happy with their opsec and still reduces the amount of backbone transit costs the parties incur.