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Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Piotr Nowak)
Wed Dec 1 00:24:48 2010

From: Piotr Nowak <pnowak@batblue.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101201021223.GE38726@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 00:19:47 -0500
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
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> I don't know about their connection to TWT, but Comcast has definitely=20=

> been running their transits congested. The most obvious one from =
recent=20
> months is Tata, which appears to be massively congested for upwards of=20=

> 12 hours a day in some locations. Comcast has been forcing traffic =
from=20
> large networks who refuse to peer with them (e.g. Abovenet, NTT, =
Telia,=20
> XO, etc) to route via their congested Tata transit for a few months =
now,=20
> their Level3 transit is actually one of the last uncongested providers=20=

> that they have.

Actually AboveNet seems to peer with Comcast:

 5. xe-1-1-0.er2.iad10.above.net                                         =
                   0.0%    53    5.8   6.4   5.7  31.9   3.7
 6. above-comcast.iad10.us.above.net                                     =
            0.0%    53    6.4   6.4   6.1   6.7   0.1
 7. pos-3-12-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net                       =
 0.0%    53    6.3   6.4   6.2   6.6   0.1

But Cablevision in New York is in fact another example of this problem:

4. dstswr1-ge3-12.rh.nyk4ny.cv.net                                       =
              0.0%    78   17.8  41.2  15.0 242.9  33.5
 5. 64.15.5.142                                                          =
                               0.0%    78   44.6  42.9  23.9  82.5   9.0
 6. ???
 7. ???
 8. pos-3-12-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net                       =
2.6%    78  267.2 500.6  44.6 703.6 182.9
 9. 68.86.91.166                                                         =
                               2.6%    78  273.9 500.0  46.5 701.9 183.9


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