At 1/26/2012 10:22 PM, Travis wrote: >This is the reason that AT&T costs more and Windstream (which I have >never heard of until this message) is cheap. You get what you pay for... >a company with real tech support and engineers that know what they are >doing and get it done, and some "other" company that doesn't. :)
Windstream's a huge operation, but they have grown so fast, purely by acquisition, that they may be over their heads. Windstream is basically a rural ILEC chain, the former Alltel's wireline side, when the wireless side was split off (and kept the Alltel name until VZW bought them). They've also acquired, along the way, Valor (some ex-GTE properties in the Southwest), Alliant (Lincoln Tel), VZ's ex-GTE properties in Kentucky and elsewhere, Iowa Tel, and probably some smaller pieces. Then they went on a CLEC binge, picking up KDL, Nuvox, some smaller pieces, and just recently Paetec (itself a roll-up). Most of their business is just dial tone. Some of the subsidiaries had some decent Internet, but it's the exception. And you can imagine what their Operational Support Systems must look like after all of those disjoint acquisitions. But I have no idea why they can't just accept a BGP advertisement. Routing in the telephone world is done via manual intervention. They seem to think that the IP block is like an NPA-NXX code. Weird. >On 1/26/2012 8:00 PM, Roger Howard wrote: > > Two months ago, we received a /21 direct allocation of IPv4 > addresses from ARIN. > > > > We have two geographically diverse upstream providers. One is AT&T. > > The other is Windstream. > > > > The Windstream circuit is considerably cheaper per meg, than the AT&T > > circuit. We are wanting to do away with AT&T. > > > > After receiving the IP allocation, we added it to our BGP configs, and > > contacted AT&T and Windstream to have the block advertised out to the > > Internet. AT&T got it dealt with within a few days and traffic to > > those IPs started flowing in. Windstream we have been fighting with > > for two+ months to get it done. > > > > It's costing us thousands of dollars per month, since we can't do away > > with the AT&T circuit until Windstream bring traffic in via their > > circuit to these IPs. > > > > Windstream say they are awaiting on AT&T in order to be able to > > advertise them. Can anyone explain to me why this could be the case? > > What does AT&T have to do with weather I can advertise an IP block via > > windstream or not? > > > > Thanks, > > Roger > > -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
