Best way to improve Internet performance is to avoid Internet

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[Interesting comments on improving Internet performance which echoes some of
the rationale for user controlled networks.  Internet performance perhaps
can be improved by replacing an organization's single home default
connection to an ISP with multiple direct peerings to other customers,
organizations and content providers.  Customer owned fiber with CWDM and
wavelengths to common metro peering points would enable this type of
flexibility.  Some excerpts from original article-- BSA]


Today's focus:  Equinix CTO offers tips for improving Internet 
performance

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan

What's the best way to improve the performance of your company's 
Internet services? It may be avoiding the Internet altogether, 
says Jay Adelson, CTO and founder of Equinix, which is a leading 
provider of Internet exchange services and data centers.

Adelson's opinion on Internet performance is worth noting 
because of where Equinix sits at the Internet's core. Equinix 
provides private peering points in the U.S. and Asia to ISPs 
such as BellSouth, MCI and XO. Popular Web sites that use 
Equinix' 14 collocation Equinix provides its 775 ISP and enterprise
customers with the opportunity to connect directly with up to 190 different 
networks at the IP and transport levels. These customers use 
multiple network service provides to guarantee the 
highest-possible performance and availability.

He says the best way to improve network performance metrics - such as
availability, latency, packet loss or jitter- is to connect traffic directly

to its destination.

"Even the biggest network in the world sees the majority of its 
traffic leaving the network," Adelson says. "You really have to 
be sensitive to that to maximize network performance."

The ultimate performance may come from avoiding the Internet 
altogether, Adelson says.


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