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Re: Latency between Global Crossing & AT&T

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Levine)
Thu Sep 25 00:03:29 2003

In-Reply-To: <20030924235148.X4740-100000@phantom.eng.nac.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:00:50 -0400
To: Steven Schecter <sjs@nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



On Sep 24, 2003, at 11:55 PM, Steven Schecter wrote:

>
>
> Has anyone noticed excessively high latency between Global Crossing and
> AT&T?  From what I've gathered, the PNIs between Global Crossing and 
> AT&T
> are completely maxed out.  The word is AT&T will not increase peering
> capacity with Global Crossing since their in bankruptcy protection.  I 
> am
> certain that this is affecting a large number of both Global Crossing 
> and
> AT&T customers.  I think it's fair to say that both Global Crossing and
> AT&T are amongst the larger Tier 1 providers out there, it's shameful 
> that
> they can't come to an agreement on upgrading capacity.

A little poking around in the att/gblx route servers shows that 
capacity issues in NYC/WDC are in the GBLX->ATT direction, FWIW..



>
> <snip>
>
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Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
"The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody 
appreciates how difficult it was."  -BIX


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