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Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Oct 6 10:40:27 2005

In-Reply-To: <ad7542dc0510060719m7beecf87h@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:37:04 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:19 AM, tony sarendal wrote:

> This is not the first and certainly not the last time we see this kind
> of event happen.
> Purchasing a single-homed service from a Tier-1 provider will  
> guarantee that you
> are affected by this every time it happens.

s/every time it happens/every time it happens to YOUR upstream

People on Sprint, AT&T, GLBX, MCI, etc. were unaffected.  Only people  
who single-home to L3 or Cogent have disconnectivity.


> Now, is being a tier-1 now a good or bad sales argument when selling
> internet access ?

It's still a good argument, because Marketing != Reality. :)

-- 
TTFN,
patrick


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