[54315] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AOL & Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ringdahl, Dwight (WebUseNet))
Fri Dec 20 21:45:51 2002
From: "Ringdahl, Dwight (WebUseNet)" <ringdahl@usenetserver.com>
To: "'deepak@ai.net'" <deepak@ai.net>,
Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:44:33 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
If I were Level3, I'd give them (cogent) a bigger peering pipe, and take the
money from the larger, more stable company AOL... Might not be common
peering sense, but damn good business sense....
>> Further, if L3/Cogent are settlement-free and both parties are interested
>> in growing the size of their peering connections, wouldn't it make better
>> sense
