Excerpts from The Internet Peering Playbook: Connecting to the Core of the Internet
William B. Norton, August 2011, Ghana - African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF-2)
William B. Norton is the Executive Director for DrPeering.net, a leading Internet Peering consultancy. He is an internationally recognized expert on Internet Peering and Internet Exchange Points, a strategy consultant, and a highly sought-after public speaker.
From 1998 through 2008, Mr. Norton held the position of Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison for Equinix, Inc., a large-scale global provider of peering and colocation services. In this role he spent 90% of his time working directly with the Internet operations community facilitating interconnections, researching, and documenting the industry's best current practices. The resulting "peering white papers" and the follow-on DrPeering.net website are the most widely cited sources for information on Internet Peering in the industry.
Mr. Norton led seventeen North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) Peering Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, which came to be a popular fixture at NANOG meetings. He established himself as a thought leader in the peering community by authoring the business models for how companies could use peering relationships to dramatically reduce their network costs. Mr. Norton's Business Case for Peering is now used by virtually every company that engages in large-scale traffic engineering. When Mr. Norton left Equinix in 2008, it had a market cap of $3.6B.
From 1987 to 1998 Mr. Norton was the Internet Engineering Manager responsible for, among other things, chairing the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), the operations forum for the North American Internet from 1995 through 1998. He received his MBA from the Michigan Business School and his Computer Science degree from Potsdam College.
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Book signing line at AfPIF-2, August 2011
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