Gakuru, Alex wrote:
Glad you now understand that I know what peering is and was referring to a process within it. In relation to the discussion thread, while making my contribution I had in mind an earlier skunkworks discussion(30 reactions!) sparked by an article "Kenya IXP reduces connectivity costs, Internet speeds" here ... (30 April 2008) very practical relevance to end-users supposed cost savings (NOTE not questioned technical importance). My beef? The point I made was that too often and easily IXPs were overpraised (citing another skunkworks' expression of today "horse has been flogged to death (and back to life) countless times":) for their great technical ability to save on international transit bandwidth [to ISPs] but that those benefits need to be passed on to the consumers i.e. translating to cheaper costs and higher quality internet. That's all folks....
eeehhh... not likely to happen if over 80% of the traffic still goes transit (or international) and only less than 20% is via peering. If we can move to where the ratios interchange or even 60% is peering and 40% is transit or a fifty fifty .. now would be talking.