[192442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Fri Oct 28 15:18:47 2016
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Timothy Lister <incudie@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:18:43 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Level3 hasn't even finished migrating its TWTelecom customers to the L3 AS =
yes, and it's been years. So I don't think you can expect any faster transi=
tion for CL.=20
-mel beckman
> On Oct 28, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Timothy Lister <incudie@gmail.com> wrote:
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> So if this went through, how would it happen? Does 3356 (L3) absorb 209's
> (CL) infrastructure and slowly make customers change their peering config
> to hit 3356 instead?
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> You make a good point, I have at least a couple clients that peer to both
> providers for redundancy. One of which just recently signed an agreement
> with CenturyLink for the sole purpose of fail over.
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> -----Original Message-----
> Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications -
> Interweb is doomed
> From: Jima <nanog@jima.us>
> To: <nanog@nanog.org>
>>>> On 10/27/2016 12:36, Nevin Gonsalves via NANOG wrote:
>>>> :-)
> http://www.wsj.com/articles/centurylink-in-advanced-talks-to-merge-with-l=
evel-3-communications-1477589011
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> This is great! Except for all of their mutual customers who had circuits
> from both for redundancy. (See also: Level 3's and TWTC's mutual
> customers, and probably a long list of other M&A I'm not thinking of
> off-hand.)
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> OK, I lied about it being great anyway.
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> Jima
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> -----Original Message-----
> Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications -
> Interweb is doomed
> From: Jima <nanog@jima.us>
> To: <nanog@nanog.org>
