[161182] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast NOC Contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Sun Mar 3 09:19:01 2013
In-Reply-To: <513344D4.20509@foobar.org>
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 09:18:43 -0500
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
And the sad surprising part of all this is that they don't do public peering=
, which would go long ways to reduce pressures on their network...
Nor do the wish to sell transit to their network at a reasonable rate ..
What a shame!
Faisal
On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 02/03/2013 18:07, Vinod K wrote:
>> I hear there are networks at capacity b/c of ratios. Everybody wants to
>> send Comcast traffic, but noone wants to send money.
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> The flip side of this argument is that as it's mostly an access network
> with an asymmetric last mile infrastructure, the natural aggregate interne=
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> traffic profile of the total sum (bytes-in, bytes-out) counted at the
> customer hand-off points will tend to be weighted in one direction.
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> For providers who have an overall asymmetric traffic profile towards
> Comcast, it's a matter of perspective as to whether you view this as the
> providers sending Comcast traffic or Comcast customers pulling it. So it'=
s
> hardly surprising that there are disagreements about who gets to pay the
> other for the interconnection arrangements.
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> Nick
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