[108984] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wall)
Mon Nov 3 02:35:56 2008
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 02:35:42 -0500
From: "Paul Wall" <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <56FE6098-329F-40A9-B2B3-F649E18F801C@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
> 1. Neither Sprint nor Cogent have transit
> Both Sprint & Cogent are transit-free networks. (Notice how I carefully
> avoided saying "tier one"?)
How do you explain Cogent's arrangement with NTT (AS 2914)? If it's
not transit, what is it?
Does Akamai have peering arrangements with Cogent directly?
Paul