[168808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent <-> Verizon peering congestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Laszko)
Tue Feb 4 20:47:46 2014
From: James Laszko <jamesl@mythostech.com>
To: Robert Glover <robertg@garlic.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 01:43:35 +0000
In-Reply-To: <52F194F4.9040106@garlic.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
He received a very similar response from Level3 when we complained to them =
about the issue. "We have contacted VZ with no response"
We see pings go from 8ms to 110ms+ from our office FIOS to one of our data =
centers in San Diego....
LAX handoffs of FIOS traffic to Cogent & Level3 appears the choke points to=
us.
James Laszko
Mythos Technlogy Inc
jamesl@mythostech.com
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> On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:35 PM, "Robert Glover" <robertg@garlic.com> wrote:
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> FYI, here's the latest response from Cogent when I prodded them about
> the issue (just received this about 30 minutes ago:
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> The issue on this peer involves a high amount of traffic being sent to
> Cogent from the Verizon network. In order to resolve the congestion on
> that peer, Verizon needs to engineer thier routing to another peering
> point with Cogent that has more available space for the traffic. We have
> reached out to Verizon for assistance and are still awaiting a response
> from their peering engineers. We will continue to reach out to them
> until they respond.
> ---
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> Sounds like more "fluff" to me :-/
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> -Bobby
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