[86293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cogent+ Level(3) are ok now
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Nov 1 07:27:51 2005
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:27:16 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p06230901bf8c67f40063@[192.168.4.148]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi John,
> Even with cold-potato routing, there is an expense in handling increased
> levels of traffic that is destined for your network. This increase in traffic
> often has no new revenue associated with it, because it is fanning out to
> thousands of flat-rate consumer/small-business connections (e.g. DSL)
> where billing is generally by peak capacity not usage.
not true for cogent tho, we know that virtually all their traffic is usage based
transit customers
Steve
