[49283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Jun 27 16:31:42 2002
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:30:06 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020627201540.GE99199@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 04:15 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
>On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:57:59PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>>
>> I know Sprint won't peer with anyone small. I said in my inital post I
>> don't stand a chance - but who knows, at the rate OC48 prices are dropping
>> maybe next year I will meet the requirements. Attention K-Mart shoppers,
>> WorldCom OC48's on sale in isle 5. ;-)
>
>When OC48s are cheap, the peering requirements will become OC192. It has
>nothing to do with the ability to support the traffic exchanged, but
>everything to do with excluding you from peering with them.
>
>A lot of networks are now running peering requirements so hard that almost
>none of their existing peers would qualify (including some well known
>tier 1's).
This is not news. Remember when AGIS had peering requirements that AGIS
could not meet?
>Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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TTFN,
patrick
