Peeringdb. The purpose of this project is to facilitate the exchange of information related to Peering.
Specifically, what networks are peering, where they are peering, and if they are likely to peer with you. If you don't know what peering is, and/or you don't currently engage in peering, this probably won't have any meaning for you. How the 'Net works: an introduction to peering and transit: Page 1. In 2005, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre famously told BusinessWeek, "What they [Google, Vonage, and others] would like to do is to use my pipes free.
But I ain't going to let them do that…Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? " The story of how the Internet is structured economically is not so much a story about net neutrality, but rather it's a story about how ISPs actually do use AT&T's pipes for free, and about why AT&T actually wants them to do so.