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| reply to cableties
Re: Follow the money...
said by cableties  :Um yeah. What they fail to tell you is the line about "generating traffic". When you learn that traffic is money, and they don't care what traffic, then its money. Your ISP gets a rate based on flow. Now, flow ebbs in and out. But let's say your rate is based on a large number of traffic. Well, what happens when that traffic is stopped to a trickle? You pay more. You have it reversed -- the more traffic an ISP sends and receives, the more they pay. Settlement-free peering is usually where the "flow" model comes into play and muddies the waters a bit, but SFP is largely irrelevant for consumer-oriented providers in general and BellSouth in particular.
-SC
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