North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues
> > > > Me thinks Cogent doesn't have a problem with congestion on the inbound > > > > direction. Fix your reverse path. > > > > > > Customers of Cogent should be/are more concerned about congestion on the > > > inbounds at Level3 <-> Cogent; outbound is way too easy to control. > > > > Cogent has a pile of available inbound - websites tend to send traffic out, > > not take traffic in. > > Somewhat true. Yet still if the inbound from one of the major players is > really saturated wouldn't that hurt Cogent customers. > When you have symmetric links [same up/down] (which basically all links are) the probability of the inbound link from others being saturated for a company that provides mostly transit to webhosters is nill to nothing. Alex
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