[54280] in North American Network Operators' Group
AOL & Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Thu Dec 19 14:49:07 2002
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:47:24 -0500
From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I was poking around to see what was happening with Cogent and AOL
and ran into some interesting info.
The test that Cogent failed was a 2:1 ratio; Cogent was at 3:1 and
AOL insisted they be at no more than 2:1 for free peering.
AOL wants Cogent to pay for peering - the pricing I've heard is
$50-/meg for paid peering - which I think is more than street price
for transit...
Hmm; I wonder if this change in policy has anything to do with John
Schanz's recent move from Sprint to AOL?
--asp
