The Old Boys' Network

摘要

Technology, technology, technology. Whether it's terabit routers, optical switches, geographic load-balancers, or DWDM, these days the networking industry is obsessed with buying and selling new hardware to improve the performance of the Internet. Want to know the truth? All of that technology isn't going to do any good unless ISPs figure out a fair way to connect their networks. "If peering isn't resolved, the Internet will remain a cell-phone-quality network," says Kim Claffy, principal investigator for the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA, San Diego), an Internet engineering research group.