It's funny you should mention that. I just learned that our CL traffic rides on a single lambda is a Level3 fiber. Oddly, though, the cost to buy that same circuit directly from Level3 is twice as high.
Which bodes ill for circuit pricing in the reduced-competition environment following the merger. A similar thing happened to us when L3 bought TWT. In both cases L3 says "but you're getting such a better network!" Alas, that turned out to be not the case with the TWT acquisition, as merger mishaps caused numerous outages. -mel > On Oct 28, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Jared Geiger <ja...@compuwizz.net> wrote: > > Savvis 3561 still exists on Centurylink's side too. 6 networks down to 1 > ... How much of that fiber for each network was running in the same conduit > to begin with anyway? > > Centurylink > Qwest > Savvis > > Level3 > Global Crossing > TWTC > >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:24 PM, joel jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: >> >>> On 10/28/16 12:18 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: >>> Level3 hasn't even finished migrating its TWTelecom customers to the L3 >> AS yes, and it's been years. So I don't think you can expect any faster >> transition for CL. >> 3549 still exists... >>> -mel beckman >>> >>>> On Oct 28, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Timothy Lister <incu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> So if this went through, how would it happen? Does 3356 (L3) absorb >> 209's >>>> (CL) infrastructure and slowly make customers change their peering >> config >>>> to hit 3356 instead? >>>> >>>> You make a good point, I have at least a couple clients that peer to >> both >>>> providers for redundancy. One of which just recently signed an agreement >>>> with CenturyLink for the sole purpose of fail over. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications - >>>> Interweb is doomed >>>> From: Jima <na...@jima.us> >>>> To: <nanog@nanog.org> >>>>>>> On 10/27/2016 12:36, Nevin Gonsalves via NANOG wrote: >>>>>>> :-) >>>> http://www.wsj.com/articles/centurylink-in-advanced-talks- >> to-merge-with-level-3-communications-1477589011 >>>> >>>> >>>> This is great! Except for all of their mutual customers who had circuits >>>> from both for redundancy. (See also: Level 3's and TWTC's mutual >>>> customers, and probably a long list of other M&A I'm not thinking of >>>> off-hand.) >>>> >>>> OK, I lied about it being great anyway. >>>> >>>> Jima >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications - >>>> Interweb is doomed >>>> From: Jima <na...@jima.us> >>>> To: <nanog@nanog.org> >> >> >> >>