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Old rules, modern peering decisions arent made with such common sense ideas in mind but based on power play and a desire for everyone to be your customer! Connectivity, resilience, even commercial saving all seem to be increasingly moved to be on a back burner for many peering managers! I have this at the moment with an operator, we host content their access customers use and have requested improved connectivity to, I see this provider via mutual transit.. they wont peer. Your analysis of the AOL/Cogent situation suggests we're not fully aware of the facts, either that or they really are stupid! Steve On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Deepak Jain wrote: > > > Further, if L3/Cogent are settlement-free and both parties are interested in > growing the size of their peering connections, wouldn't it make better sense > for Cogent all-around? If AOL is not interested in settlement-free peering > with them, then AOL can pay to get to them. > > I seem to remember some old rule of thumb that basically said anyone who > peers with your upstream/transit provider is probably makes sense for you to > peer with (because you are otherwise paying to reach them). > > I thought *THAT* was the point of peering vs transit for networks that are > not transit-free. > > Deepak Jain > AiNET > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > > Andrew Partan > > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:47 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: AOL & Cogent > > > > > > > > I was poking around to see what was happening with Cogent and AOL > > and ran into some interesting info. > > > > The test that Cogent failed was a 2:1 ratio; Cogent was at 3:1 and > > AOL insisted they be at no more than 2:1 for free peering. > > > > AOL wants Cogent to pay for peering - the pricing I've heard is > > $50-/meg for paid peering - which I think is more than street price > > for transit... > > > > Hmm; I wonder if this change in policy has anything to do with John > > Schanz's recent move from Sprint to AOL? > > --asp > > > >
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