TY - CONF
T1 - EVOLUTION OF INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
T2 - 20th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1999
AU - Dewan, Rajiv
AU - Friemer, Marshall
AU - Gundepudi, Pavan
N1 - Funding Information:
The National Science Foundation owned the Internet backbone network prior to 1994 (Leiner et al. 1998). The traffic was primarily from universities and other research sites that were supported by NSF. As the Internet became more commercial, NSF’s backbone was replaced by a number of backbone networks owned by different companies connected at a few locations called public peering points. NSF initially set up three public peering points, in Chicago, Palo Alto, and Pennsauken, New Jersey. It later added two more industry run sites, called Metropolitan Access Exchanges, East in Vienna, Virginia, and West in San Jose, California. In the absence of any private agreements, the networks exchange traffic bound for each other’s destinations at these sites.
Publisher Copyright:
© 1999, Association for Information Systems. All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The infrastructure of the Internet is evolving from that of a public network to interconnected private networks that are selective in terms and conditions for connectivity to others. The connectivity, reach, and bandwidth of the Internet in the next century will depend on its infrastructure, which in turn depends on the economics and forms of the interconnection agreements that create the global network. We show that the benefits of private interconnection are unevenly distributed and that smaller networks gain more. Further, the smaller networks gain even more as the public peering points get more congested. This makes larger networks less willing to peer with others. This raises public policy issues about network mergers and consolidations that result in some networks being much larger than others.
AB - The infrastructure of the Internet is evolving from that of a public network to interconnected private networks that are selective in terms and conditions for connectivity to others. The connectivity, reach, and bandwidth of the Internet in the next century will depend on its infrastructure, which in turn depends on the economics and forms of the interconnection agreements that create the global network. We show that the benefits of private interconnection are unevenly distributed and that smaller networks gain more. Further, the smaller networks gain even more as the public peering points get more congested. This makes larger networks less willing to peer with others. This raises public policy issues about network mergers and consolidations that result in some networks being much larger than others.
KW - Economic theory
KW - Internet
KW - communications industry
KW - network interconnection
KW - public peering
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M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85138708008
SP - 144
EP - 154
Y2 - 13 December 1999 through 15 December 1999
ER -