Re: Sprint / Cogent dispute over?

* Patrick W. Gilmore · * Sun Nov 02 23:46:13 2008

On Nov 2, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Randy Epstein wrote:
https://www.sprint.net/cogent.php

Yes, I've read it. They need to fix their <TITLE>.
So while Cogent was depeered by Sprint, we contacted the CEO of
Cogent on

Friday to try and arrange at least a temporary peering arrangement
so that

bits flowed between our networks while they battled this situation
out with

Sprint. Cogent's response? Buy transit from them.
I presume one of Sprint's dissatisfactions during the trial with
Cogent were

ratios. My network happens to have a very high ratio of eyeballs
(inbound

traffic) vs outbound traffic. One would believe that Cogent would
like to

offload their outbound traffic to networks other than their Tier-1
peers, to

at least give them an upper hand when negotiating peering
arrangements with

these networks.
It's funny how Cogent depeers networks whenever they want, but the
second

another network depeers them, they cry foul.

Aren't you in one of the "1300 on-net locations" with Cogent? Doesn't
that give you a free FE?
:-)
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TTFN,
patrick