"There's nothing glamorous about a network executive peering over the shoulders of people making goofy drawings, " he told the AP.

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In fact, a sizable community fiber network reported to me that peering with a major source of video traffic dropped their monthly costs by tens of thousands of dollars.

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"The public peering points are by design bottlenecks, " says Scott Hiles, Sprint's network operations manager.

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Shared fiber : The government constructs (or authorizes a private company to construct) a network of fiber optic cables that run from each home in the municipality to a central peering point.

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