On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 21:46, Juha Saarinen wrote:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/8E589BD9394A5141CC256DEB00084747?Op...
'Thompson also uses a different terminology to describe peering.
"It's a much abused term. Peering really only happens between companies of a similar size. What we're talking about is interconnection." '
But how do you measure "similar size"? Is it to do with financial size or traffic volumes? You can have a small company who has content that customers of a large ISP want e.g. webcams pointing at LOTR premiere venues. Under the model of companies of the same size that simply wouldn't happen. I've always tried to avoid the term "interconnection" for two reasons: 1) On the Internet we're all interconnected - the question is how well? 2) Interconnection is telco speak for charging