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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Level 3's side of the story
Richard A Steenbergen writes: >For anyone keeping score, the >last two times Cogent was depeered, it responded by intentionally blocking >connectivity to the network in question, despite the fact that both of >those networks were Sprint customers and thus perfectly reachable under >the Sprint transit Cogent gets from Verio. While no one has come forward >to say if the Cogent/Verio agreement is structured for full transit or >only Sprint/ATDN routes, Cogent has certainly set a precedent for >intentionally disrupting connectivity in response to depeering, as a scare >tactic to keep other networks from depeering them. Without getting into the question of what is "right", it's perfectly plausible that the Cogent-Verio interconnection is structured such that Verio didn't send Cogent routes to FT via Sprint. Consider the hypothetical case where Verio might peer with FT. Joe
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