CSE 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nynex, Uunet, Border Gateway Protocol
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How much 16669$ (and how to pay) Some as that"s got more connectivity (more friends) than you do. Most of us are just customers (dorm, apt, small org) We don"t bring that much value to the internet. Even schools are customers! (princeton, mit, etc. : peer-peer. No one person has more power than the other. Lots of railroads lots of choices. Lecs (local exchange carriers): wire up buildings, local, friends w/ construction workers. Very much monopolies! (they law down wire for every single building) Ixcs also hold power - say if you wanted to hook up to la or manhattan or etc. When a call goes from 1 phone company to another: Money is (cid:3247)split up(cid:3248) among phone systems settlement. Provider tells all neighbors how to reach customer. Customer does not want to provide transit service. Customer has ads that they"re sending to their provider. They can"t reach anywhere else unless it goes through the provider!