Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?

Sun Nov 2 21:33:28 UTC 2008

On 11/2/08, Joe Maimon <jmaimon at ttec.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
>> On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Nelson Lai wrote:
>>
>>  Why do some companies like Cogent get depeered relatively often and
>>> companies like Teleglobe don't even get talked about and operate in silence
>>> free from depeering?
>>>
>>
>> That's funny.  One of the first networks to de-peer Cogent was Teleglobe.
>>  They re-peered after a bit.
>>
>> The next obvious question is: When Sprint, Telia & L3 de-peering Cogent,
>> it causes a lot of news in the press & noise on NANOG, so why didn't you
>> know Teleglobe depeered Cogent?
>>
>
> Imagine the news had they all depeered cogent at the same time.

Imagine the lawsuits and government regulation had that occurred.

-- 
Brandon Galbraith
Voice: 630.400.6992
Email: brandon.galbraith at gmail.com