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peering

An agreement between two networks to accept each other's data packets and forward them. The Internet is a combination of public and private peering. See IXP and Tier 1 network.
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The Internet is a network of networks arranged into a system of business relationships called the Global Internet Peering Ecosystem.
I had been working with the cable companies on the benefits of peering, and as a result, many of them built into multiple regional IXPs and started peering openly with each other and with the other Tier 2 ISPs in the ecosystem.
These new players and their peering relationships are shown graphically in Figure 2.
* The volume of traffic being exchanged directly in a peering relationship, among the cable companies and between the cable companies and the Tier 2 ISPs was huge-second only to the Tier 1 ISPs' traffic exchange volume estimates at the time.
* In 2003, the cable companies had an Open Peering Policy.
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