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I doubt Akamai will use them evenly. Akamai will toss traffic wherever it is most advantageous
to Akamai.

They will not likely saturate anyone's network (after all, that's also counter-productive for their
own goals in most cases).

Owen

On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:

> If three carriers participated by providing transit, how would Akamai use the transit links evenly, either between transit links or participating carriers?
> 
> Frank
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MICE Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jay Hanke
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> Subject: [MICE-DISCUSS] Akamai Peering
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> If I placed one of the smaller Akamai clusters in 511, would carriers
> be interested in peering with the condition that they provide
> transport to "feed" the cluster?
> 
> The idea would be that carriers using the cluster would share in the
> costs. So Carrier A would peer over MICE a router in front of the
> cluster with the agreement that they advertise the cluster IP
> addresses to the Internet. Carrier B would do the same thing.
> 
> Jay
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