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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
Makes no sense. The push traffic is still lopsided with the pull traffic. I would make sense only if it were an AOL type ISP with tons of pull traffic but this is not the case I don't think.
Hell, I don't get it at all.  |
If ISP A and ISP B have a peering agreement then they agree to place a value on their bytes, and whoever receives the most the difference to the other.
ISP A sends 100Tb over a month, ISP B sends back 90Tb in the same month
Therefore ISP B owes ISP A for the value of 10Tb worth of extra data received.
It works because the ISPs can sell that data to their downstream customers (or push it out other peering links). Hosting is win-win because they charge the customer for the pipe AND get a direct peering offset benefit from it.
At least that's how I understood it, again things may have changed since 2001.
