Rob Powell of Telecom Rambling’s fame led me to a thorough article on “How the Internet works“. The article was written by Rudolph van der Berg in ars technica. Rudolph–thank you for making this available.
At the end of the article is a link to another white paper “The Art of Peering“.
Zayo Team: I encourage you to print these out and read them. It is hard to find thorough material that helps people connect the dots on the inner-workings of the Internet.
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Hey Dan –
Both of these papers are great primer articles that give a view of the nuance of interconnection and transit between and across IP networks, and hopefully begin to drive readers the inevitable questions about net-neutrality.
There is an analogous, if not more complicated, version of this situation in the voice world, where carriers are compelled to interconnect with one another and allow transit of voice traffic across their networks. But for Voice traffic the flows of finance, and compensation, are significantly more complicated. Added to the financial complexities, are the effects of migration traffic towards wireless carriers, and the proverbial ‘other shoe’ of a looming FCC decision with regards to the intercarrier compensation treatment of enhanced voice traffic and I think that the worlds of IP and voice are bound to collide again.
-Brent