(place) by cordelia Sat Apr 28 2001 at 13:15:30
The places where autonomous systems connect to each other on the Internet. In the backbone, these are typically BGP networks, and the nature of BGP metrics allow for suboptimal routing across a peering point.

Backbone operators typically pay each other based on the imbalance in traffic flow across a peering point.

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