Figure 1 represents that the Internet is not a single network but more than 12,000 networks connected by peering points.

图1说明Internet并不是单一网络，而是通过对等点连接起来的超过12,000个网络。

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"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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