Make the AS path longer, losing traffic, and therefore revenue?

Why would they do that?

The twtelecom customers cannot multi-home (most of them anyway). Most of 3549’s 
traffic has other paths to the Internet.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

> On Jan 21, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Matthew D. Hardeman <mharde...@ipifony.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I was actually surprised they didn’t just leave GBLX customers on AS3549, 
> kill all external AS3549 peerings, and treat AS3549 downline as a Level3 
> customer, accepting L3 and GBLX communities from GBLX customers.
> 
> That seems more along the lines of what they’re doing with the AS4323 TW 
> Telecom customers.  (Though, in fairness, AS3356 has always carried AS4323 as 
> a customer as far as I recall.)  It will be interesting to see if whether 
> they kill off AS4323 peerings.
> 
>> On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Marty Strong <ma...@cloudflare.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Depends on the market and how far along their migration is going. In 
>> experience with GTT (AS4436) they’re still not finished migrating everything 
>> to AS3257.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Marty Strong
>> --------------------------------------
>> CloudFlare - AS13335
>> Network Engineer
>> ma...@cloudflare.com
>> +44 7584 906 055
>> smartflare (Skype)
>> 
>> http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=13335
>> 
>>> On 21 Jan 2016, at 19:12, Matthew D. Hardeman <mharde...@ipifony.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Intriguing.  If it were only that though, wouldn’t they just still pick it 
>>> up via TeliaSonera IC?
>>> 
>>> I did notice that in the past few months, TeliaSonera has been dropping 
>>> AS3549 from spots where they had session with both AS3549 and with AS3356 
>>> and now reaches AS3549 via AS3356.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:08 PM, Marty Strong <ma...@cloudflare.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve heard from the grape vine that this is due to the GBLX to Level3 
>>>> transition, and it’s in fact paid IP transit.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Marty Strong
>>>> --------------------------------------
>>>> CloudFlare - AS13335
>>>> Network Engineer
>>>> ma...@cloudflare.com
>>>> +44 7584 906 055
>>>> smartflare (Skype)
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=13335
>>>> 
>>>>> On 21 Jan 2016, at 18:37, Matthew D. Hardeman <mharde...@ipifony.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yesterday I was looking at some of the IPv4 and IPv6 session summaries on 
>>>>> http://lg.he.net and saw that both the Equinix Los Angeles and Equinix 
>>>>> Ashburn site routers have new IPv4 and IPv6 sessions (not yet running, 
>>>>> but administratively up for about 6 days now) configured for AS3356.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I know they already peer IPv6, though not at those sites.  Is this the 
>>>>> first hint that HE and Level3 are coming around on an IPv4 and IPv6 
>>>>> peering agreement?
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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