Richard A Steenbergen writes:
For anyone keeping score, the
last two times Cogent was depeered, it responded by intentionally blocking
connectivity to the network in question, despite the fact that both of
those networks were Sprint customers and thus perfectly reachable under
the Sprint
Daniel Golding writes:
They can. Cogent has transit and is preventing traffic from traversing its
transit connection to reach Level(3). Level(3) does not have transit - they
are in a condition of settlement free interconnection (SFI). The ball is in
Cogent's court. This is not the first time or
Brandon Butterworth writes:
Perhaps they aim to keep driving the competition out of business
to ensure there's a cheap supply of equipment so they can grow
whilst charging so little?
There are several problems with such a plan, even were someone to
attempt it. One, overall traffic is still
Hannigan, Martin writes:
As long as the hardware can keep up, the amount of glass in spectrum
in the ground should make this an impossibility for the near term,
10 years plus.
Fiber isn't useful by itself; there are two obvious things needed to
turn a piece of glass into something that can carry
Mikael Abrahamsson writes:
So what will people do? Stop selling when their networks are full? Ignore
the economics and let other business carry the cost of bulk internet? Go
for cheaper platforms? Go bankrupt (if no other business can carry the
cost) ?
This problem will be fixed when the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the contrary, you get better redundancy by sticking to
one carrier and making sure that they really provide
separacy though the entire span of the circuit. If you
have two carriers running fibre to yoiur building down
the same conduit, then you do NOT have separacy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Again, I'd be interested in hearing from one of the bigger ones on this:
UUNet, ATT, Sprint, Level3, QWest If you can't say anything, I
understand.
You don't need them to say anything - just look at what they are
advertising. Are they advertising each other's
From the NWS:
A tornadic thunderstorm moved into eastern Loudoun County from
western Fairfax County in the vicinity of the Washington Dulles
International Airport. This tornado passed within one half mile of
the National Weather Service forecast office in Sterling. This
prompted the weather
The northern leg of TAT14 seems to have just taken an outage about an
hour ago. As the southern leg was already down due to other faults,
this will probably be an exciting time for many providers.
Stuart Staniford writes:
It would seem for the Internet to reliably resist bandwidth attacks
from future worms, it has to be, roughly bigger in the middle than at
the edges. If this is the case, then the worm can choke edges at the
sites it infects, but the rest of the net can still function.
Stuart Staniford writes:
I wasn't advocating a solution, just observing the way things would
have to be for worms to be purely a buy a bigger box problem (as I
think Sean was suggesting if I didn't misunderstand him).
Ah.
It would generally seem that ISPs would provide more downstream
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