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Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Fri Oct 7 11:35:46 2005

Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:31:44 -0400
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: Patrick Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <ACB1D5AF-0E4E-4648-93C3-20CFC638E494@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 10/6/05 10:37 AM, "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.

Take-away: Do not single home. I'm shocked folks aren't figuring this out.
If you are a webhoster or enterprise and your business model can not support
multiple Internet pipes, than you have a suboptimal business model (to put
it lightly)

> 
> 
>> 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. :)


Dan


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