[85191] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Wed Oct 5 20:26:40 2005
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:04:44 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.62.0510051932320.1508@vanadium.hq.nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
>
>> 2. Level 3's assault method is to drop peering with Cogent, in
>> hopes this will force Cogent to purchase transit to them in some
>> fashion (does Level 3 have an inflated idea of their own worth?),
>> also forcing them to raise prices and hopefully (for Level 3)
>> returning some stability to the market.
>
>
> I think I'd bet that if L3 depeered Cogent, the last place cogent
> would go to buy transit to L3 would be L3.
>
I'm not making value judgements on anything that has happened - both
sides think that either tactically or strategically what they are doing
is for the best.
But when I said "purchase transit to them in some fashion" that allowed
buying it from a third party as well - as long as it reaches L3 eventually.
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