[p2p-research] How peering is changing the shape of the Internet

[Michel Bauwens]

Tom,

if you have timem, any commentary on this would be very welcome for our
blog,

Michel

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Matt Boggs <matt at digiblade.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/science/02topo.html?src=sch&pagewanted=all
>
>
> Peering goes back to the earliest days of the Internet, when organizations
> would directly connect their networks instead of paying yet another company
> to route data traffic. Originally, the companies that owned the backbone of
> the Internet shared traffic. In recent years, however, the practice has
> increased to the point where some researchers who study the way global
> networks are put together believe that peering is changing the fundamental
> shape of the Internet, with serious consequences for its stability and
> security. Others see the vast increase in traffic staying within a
> structure
> that has remained essentially the same.
> What is clear is that today a significant portion of Internet traffic does
> not flow through the backbone networks of giant Internet companies like
> AT&T
> and Level 3. Instead, it has begun to cascade in torrents of data on the
> edges of the network, as if a river in flood were carving new channels.
>
>
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