[85243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tony sarendal)
Thu Oct 6 11:24:49 2005
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:20:55 +0100
From: tony sarendal <dualcyclone@gmail.com>
Reply-To: tony sarendal <dualcyclone@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <ACB1D5AF-0E4E-4648-93C3-20CFC638E494@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 06/10/05, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
>
> 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 !=3D Reality. :)
>
Patrick, it happens to every PA customer who buys his service from one
of the Tier-1 providers active in the de-peering.
If a PA customer buys his service from a non-tier1 this will most
likely not happen, unless that provider has bought transit in a very
unwise way.
The entire point is that it's not always good to be too close to tier-1 spa=
ce.
PS. sorry about the double-post Patrick.
