Spatial Dispersion of Peering Clusters in the European Internet

D'Ignazio, Alessio and Emanuele Giovannetti ()

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: We study the role played by geographical distance in the peering decisions between Internet Service Providers. Firstly, we assess whether or not the Internet industry shows clustering in peering; we then concentrate on the dynamics of the agglomeration process by studying the effects of bilateral distance in changing the morphology of existing peering patterns. Our results show a dominance of random spatial patterns in peering agreements. The sign of the effect of distance on the peering decision, driving the agglomeration/dispersion process, depends, however, on the initial level of clustering. We show that clustered patterns will disperse in the long run.

Keywords: Internet; Peering; clustering; agglomeration; Networks; IXP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C25 D85 L86 R12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006-01
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