[171975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun May 18 05:59:50 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 12:57:51 +0300
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
In-Reply-To: <201405180739.13730.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> I'm forced to peer with certain African providers in London
> and Amsterdam because they don't want to peer in Africa,
> where we are literally are an x-connect away from each
> other. And the reasons are not even because either of us is
> larger or smaller than the other... it's just legacy
> thinking and we're the new guy that has grown rapidly.
>
> Now we both have to pay for traffic to get sent to Europe
> and back. How nice...
which is amusing given you have massive east coast to europe fiber
capacity.
randy
