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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Buy tier 1 peering for only $15 million
On 20 Apr 2000, Sean Donelan wrote: > Its amazing the net works at all. > > The reality is I think it would be very unusual if UUNET terminated > Genuity's or Sprint's peering agreement just because the ownership > changed. If UUNET wouldn't do it in the case of those cases, they > would have a difficult time explaining to DOJ why they would terminated > a different provider's peering agreement if its ownership changed. In the Genuity (meaning Genuity->BBN->GTEi->Genuity) case, while it didn't appear that any peering arrangements were terminated, they did go "stale". Whether this is GTE's way of saving a few bucks or the other guy's, I can't say (hell who can, it's under NDA), but in the end customers suffer as the acquired companies' original peering links get saturated and stay that way for a year or longer. I'm assuming there must be some political crap going on behind the scenes, as when it got to a certain point it appears that Genuity/GTEi/BBN started buying transit from Sprint for AS3847. Why AS3847 wouldn't buy transit from AS1 is beyond me, but I'm guessing it's not an operational decision. The point being, if network A is acquired by network B, I can tell you from firsthand knowledge that A may never see the advantageous peering arrangements B has, and furthermore, A's peering may slowly rot and turn to crap. Charles
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