[115191] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cogent input
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Thu Jun 11 13:19:00 2009
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:18:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4A310AC5.5050701@justinshore.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I'm aware of some (regular?) depeering issues. The NANOG archives have
AFAIR, there has never been a black-holing, just disappearance of routes. I=
f you are properly multihomed, this is irrelevant and you continue to eat y=
our ice cream and chuckle while they fight it out. It's amusing, really.
> I also know that their bandwidth is extremely cheap. This of course
> creates an issue for technical folks when trying to justify other
> upstream options that cost significantly more but also don't have a
> damaging history of getting depeered.
It's not as relatively cheap as it used to be. A variety of others can be h=
ad in the same ballpark (Telia, Tiscali, Seabone, etc.)
