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Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Oct 5 16:14:21 2005

In-Reply-To: <1A1975C3-EC89-4A75-9864-51EF6328BFF8@crocker.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:31:25 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Matthew Crocker wrote:

>> 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.

Really?  You must have different transit contracts that I do.  (But I  
bet I have more than you do.)

I think the word "most" is probably an overstatement.  I'd be  
surprised if more than a "few" did.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick


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