[108975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sun Nov 2 23:41:10 2008
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <366100670811021333j685e64d1u9fcff6d02c3745cc@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 23:41:02 -0500
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On Nov 2, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
>> On 11/2/08, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> wrote:
>>> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>>> On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Nelson Lai wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why do some companies like Cogent get depeered relatively often
>>>> and companies like Teleglobe don't even get talked about and
>>>> operate in silence free from depeering?
>>>
>>> That's funny. One of the first networks to de-peer Cogent was
>>> Teleglobe. They re-peered after a bit.
>>>
>>> The next obvious question is: When Sprint, Telia & L3 de-peering
>>> Cogent, it causes a lot of news in the press & noise on NANOG, so
>>> why didn't you know Teleglobe depeered Cogent?
>>
>> Imagine the news had they all depeered cogent at the same time.
>
> Imagine the lawsuits and government regulation had that occurred.
That would be none.
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TTFN,
patrick
