[109111] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david raistrick)
Wed Nov 5 11:55:10 2008
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:54:49 +0000 (UTC)
From: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
To: "Church, Charles" <cchurc05@harris.com>
In-Reply-To: <FA1BA229357DB640B944218F3585FECA019BDA82@mspe2k1.cs.myharris.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Church, Charles wrote:
> I didn't really care about this, but now I'm curious. Since their
> peering was a 'trial', I'm assuming it hasn't always been there. Prior
> to Sprint and Cogent peering directly with each other, how did they
> communicate? Why was that functionality broken after they started
> peering?
They purchased transit (through NTT I believe) for connectivity to sprint.
They removed that, because their goal has been to be transit-free.
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