[38453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: C&W Peering Problem?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Nielsen)
Tue Jun 5 11:10:01 2001
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>
To: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Cc: Jason Lewis <jlewis@jasonlewis.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:
> It wouldn't suprise me if C&W dropped GlobalCenter as a peering
> partner, given GC's focus on datacenters and web/server farms
> generating mostly "push" traffic - I didn't see this as an explicit
> requirement, but less clueful backbones (Genuity, PSI, and now C&W) do
> tend to drop peering sessions with other backbones that push far more
> traffic than they pull.
>
> BTW, I just noticed that the Exodus/GC merger went through (at least,
> www.globalcenter.com brings up Exodus's front page). When did this
> happen?
Exodus bought Global Center. The web hosting side of Global Crossing.
Global Center did not have a network. Global Crossing does.
Hope that helps...
