[28218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buy tier 1 peering for only $15 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Thu Apr 20 15:34:08 2000
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:17:10 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 06:25 PM 4/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>AGIS is going on the auction block. NextLink paid over a billion dollars
>for a provider with essentially full peering with the major backbones, now
>you too can buy peering agreements from a one-time "tier 1" provider.
>According to InteractiveWeek the high bid is only US$15 million.
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2552561,00.html
>
>Then again, maybe AGIS's anti-peering policies of a few years ago make
>them a less attractive purchase.
That and I don't think they ever recovered from the fallout over their
spam-friendly policies a few years back, either.
"Microsoft is not a monopoly!" - Bill Gates "HA!" - Judge Jackson
Dean Robb
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