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Evolution #1 - The Cable Companies Peer with Each Other

Chapter 10 – The 21st Century Internet Peering Ecosystem

In this chapter we will show how the basic U.S. Internet Peering Ecosystem has morphed into the 21st century Internet Peering Ecosystem of today.

The following six evolutions demonstrate how the players react to the changes in the environment. We will first highlight the evolutions that occurred during the economic downturn in the year 2001.

We will use a separate page in sequence to describe each evolution:

Evolution #1 - The Cable Companies Peer with Each Other

Evolution #2 - Large Scale Network Savvy Content Providers Peer

Evolution #3 - Cable Companies Peer Directly with Large Scale Network Savvy Content Providers

Evolution $4 - CDNs dominate Traffic Volume

Evolution #5 - The Video Internet is Activated

Evolution #6 - Access Power Peering

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Evolution #1 - The Cable Companies Peer with Each Other

This material is from The Internet Peering Playbook, available from Amazon.com (click below) and on the iBookStore.

This material is from The Internet Peering Playbook, available from Amazon.com (click below) and on the iBookStore.