Business Chief Europe Magazine July 2016 | Page 117

TECHNOLOGY your ubiquity . You could get around that and have two transit suppliers – you reduce dependency but then you have two people to pay . For the vast majority of the internet this is how it works – most of the 50,000 networks that make up the internet rely on transit providers .
“ With our peering approach , you exchange your data packets with who they are destined for . This saves money but you also have the opportunity for this to be quicker . With transit , your traffic might go all over the world depending on the whim of the transit provider ; if you can directly connect

“ We want efficient traffic ; the lower the price we can charge , the better service we can provide through economies of scale ”

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