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From: Frank A. Coluccio2/14/2016 5:10:01 PM
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[Bit-Mile Peering] Google and Level 3 Interconnect Network Backbones

By Yevgeniy Sverdlik | DCK | Feb 8, 2016

Network peering is one of the wonkier areas of the internet and data center infrastructure world, but performance of internet services, be they online video or cloud infrastructure, depends greatly on how efficiently companies behind those services and service providers they rely on exchange traffic with others. Google recently struck a new peering deal with Level 3 Communications using a fairly new type of arrangement the carrier has recently been advocating for.

It’s called “bit mile,” and it essentially means that each partner carries exactly the same amount of data from their partner’s network over the exact same distance as the other partner. If Jack and Jane each have five apples they have to bring to their respective grandmothers, but Jack lives closer to Jane’s grandmother, and Jane lives closer to Jack’s grandmother, they can agree to deliver the apples to each other’s grandmothers, but only an equal amount of apples and only over equal distances. If Jack happens to carry more apples than agreed and over a longer distance, Jane has to compensate him.

Cont.: datacenterknowledge.com

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