 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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Re: Irony? said by jimbo2150:Which, often times, switches over to ATT or Verizon backend at some point to get to it's destination. Do some trace-routes to various sites. I am not on ATT or Verizon but I see their routers come up a lot in tracerts. You shouldn't see ATT or Verizon in a trace unless your destination happens to be on their network. They aren't centric to any kind of traffic pattern, and that shows quite well in metrics like the Knodes index. See: »www.fixedorbit.com/metrics.htm
said by jimbo2150:Have you even seen the sizing charts that compare backend sizes? Level 3, GC, Cog, etc. are like specs compared to the spider-web-like appearance of ATT and Verizon on those charts. ATT and Verizon are stretched very far, and very thin. They connect a lot of edge customers, but really don't have the core bandwidth to support the same amount of transit volume as a Level(3) or Global Crossing. When Comcast ended their contracts with ATT in 2006/2007, they cut ATT's US backbone loading levels by over 50%.
You also won't find any major US data centers using ATT or Verizon network connectivity.
Softlayer, who operate large hosting facilities in Washington, Dallas, and Seattle
Network Access Corp (NAC.net) where DSLReports is hosted
Amazon
ATT / Verizon do quite a bit of business with end-user attachment, from residential DSL subscribers all the way up to Fortune 500 enterprises. For core backbone transit, however, they priced themselves out of the game years ago. |
