HPL-2008-47
The Flattening Internet Topology: Natural Evolution, Unsightly Barnacles or Contrived Collapse? - Gill, Phillipa; Arlitt, Martin; Li, Zongpeng; Mahanti, Anirban
Keyword(s): Internet, topology, content providers, private WAN, measurement
Abstract: In this paper we collect and analyze traceroute measurements 1 to show that large content providers (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!) are deploying their own wide-area networks, bringing their networks closer to users, and bypassing Tier-1 ISPs on many paths. This trend, should it continue and be ad ...
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