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If Google operates their own backbones, then Google's peering agreement with other tier 1 backbone providers helps. The peering agreement allows packets passed
by eugenejen 18y ago
If Google operates their own backbones, then Google's peering agreement with other tier 1 backbone providers helps. The peering agreement allows packets passed in/out from Google with other providers without extra bandwidth charge.
- bilbo0s 18y agoUntil, of course, peering agreements are renegotiated. I think this is where other bandwidth providers will stick it to Google. They only have leverage for the moment. It's like falling off a cliff. Everyone thinks . . . "so far . . . so good" on the way down. But it's not the period that you are falling that is important, it's how you stop when you reach the bottom.
- donaldc 18y agoDoubtful. Google's been around for years now. If the bandwidth providers were going to stick it to Google, they already would have. Furthermore, Google and the bandwidth provider both stand to gain by cutting out any middlemen (i.e. tier 1 providers), so they both have an incentive to be reasonable.