North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:08:01PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > You can only be a "tier 1" and maintain global reachability if you peer > with every other tier 1. Level 3 is obviously the real thing, and Cogent > is "close enough" (at least in their own minds :P) that they won't buy > real transit, only spot routes for the few things that they are missing > (ATDN and Sprint basically). There is no route "filtering" going on, only > the lack of full propagation due to transit purchasing decisions, or in > this case the lack thereof. Exactly. And this is why Cogent's statement to the public (and their customers) is an outright lie. Level 3 isn't "denying Level 3's customers access to Cogent's customers and denying Cogent's customers access to Level 3 customers.". It's just that they deny Cogent settlement-free direct peering anymore. Cogent can get the L3 and L3 customer routes elsewhere if they want. But Cogent doesn't. It's Cogents decision to break connectivity, not L3's. If I would be a Cogent customer, I would have a _very_ warm word with my sales rep why they are trying to bs me with those kind of statements and think that I actually am dumb enough to believe that. Regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [email protected] -- [email protected] -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
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