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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sprint peering policy
At 04:15 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:57:59PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: >> >> I know Sprint won't peer with anyone small. I said in my inital post I >> don't stand a chance - but who knows, at the rate OC48 prices are dropping >> maybe next year I will meet the requirements. Attention K-Mart shoppers, >> WorldCom OC48's on sale in isle 5. ;-) > >When OC48s are cheap, the peering requirements will become OC192. It has >nothing to do with the ability to support the traffic exchanged, but >everything to do with excluding you from peering with them. > >A lot of networks are now running peering requirements so hard that almost >none of their existing peers would qualify (including some well known >tier 1's). This is not news. Remember when AGIS had peering requirements that AGIS could not meet? >Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras -- TTFN, patrick
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