[kictanet] Internet traffic exchange: 2 billion users and it’s done on a handshake

[Gideon]

Morning Listers,

Interesting article

Every day one Exabyte of data is said to travel over the
Internet<http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/sp/vni/vni_forecast_highlights/index.html>–
enough data to fill 300,000 of the world’s biggest hard disks or 212
million DVDs. And astonishingly, according to *Internet Traffic Exchange:
Market Developments and Policy
Challenges<http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/internet-traffic-exchange_5k918gpt130q-en>
* a new OECD report on Internet traffic exchange, most of the thousands of
networks that exchange this traffic do so without a written contract or
formal agreement.

Further read ...

http://oecdinsights.org/2012/10/22/internet-traffic-exchange-2-billion-users-and-its-done-on-a-handshake/

Gideon Rop,
DotConnectAfrica
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