[193621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATT-Level 3 Peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Wilson)
Thu Feb 9 03:14:19 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Justin Wilson <lists@mtin.net>
In-Reply-To: <8495A668-B232-4467-B8CB-13A11CAD0364@akamai.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 17:44:58 -0500
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I had a very clueless ATT salesperson tell me yesterday that =E2=80=9COur =
company policy is we don=E2=80=99t do BGP sessions.=E2=80=9D I have a =
client wanting to use ATT as an upstream and they won=E2=80=99t do BGP =
(mainly due to clueless sales). If this is the level of comp tenancy =
then good luck. :-)
Justin Wilson
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> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Van Dyk, Donovan via NANOG =
<nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
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> We=E2=80=99ve been running into a lot of problems lately with ATT =
peering lately. Level3 included.
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> We have multiple carriers and most of them have run into this issue =
over the past couple months where there is congestion between ATT and =
our carriers, it appears there is a political issue on who should pay =
for the peering and bandwidth.=20
> My colleague says he heard on the grapevine (Horrible source I know) =
that ATT is playing super hardball and requesting big cash for peering =
with them.=20
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> Anyways, that=E2=80=99s all I got.=20
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> Cheers
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> --
> Donovan Van Dyk
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> On 2/5/17, 8:21 PM, "david peahi" <davidpeahi@gmail.com> wrote:
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> We're seeing frequent dropped packets between ATT and Level 3 in =
Atlanta
> with traffic sourced from an ATT user destined for Microsoft Office =
365,
> making Office 365 apps unusable during critical business hours. =
Anyone else
> have this problem with ATT?
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