[85112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Crocker)
Wed Oct 5 13:13:23 2005
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From: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:13:00 -0400
To: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
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>> I opened a billing/support ticket with Cogent. I'm not planning
>> on paying my bill or continuing the contract if they cannot
>> provide full BGP tables and full Internet transport (barring
>> outages). Luckily I have 2 other providers so I can still reach
>> Level 3.
>>
>
> I'm curious where in your contract you think Cogent guaranteed you
> connectivity to Level 3?
My original contract was with NTT/Verio which Cogent purchased last
year when Verio nuked their Boston POP. I'm having the contract dug
out of the archives to look at what it says. IMHO I pay Cogent for
Transit to the whole Internet, If I wanted partial transit or local
peering I would order/contract and pay for that. Cogent is not
currently providing me full transit service. I really don't care who
pulled the plug, it is Cogents job to fix it for me as I am their
customer.
> Most transit contracts only guarantee packet delivery to the edge
> of their own networks. I'm pretty sure Cogent is doing that.
> (Hell, they have lots of spare capacity now. :)
Most also have a clause to cover the inter-AS links, making sure that
they are not overloaded.
>> Maybe I can buy the new 'Cogent - it is almost the Internet'
>> service for less money.
>>
>
> Maybe. Would you pay L3 for "almost the Internet" as well?
Yes, if the price were right.
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Matthew S. Crocker
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