Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts

Wed Nov 5 16:34:16 UTC 2008

-----Original Message-----
From: michael.dillon at bt.com [mailto:michael.dillon at bt.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:52 AM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts

> what you're calling a political failure could be what others 
> call a rate war. 

I didn't really care about this, but now I'm curious.  Since their
peering was a 'trial', I'm assuming it hasn't always been there.  Prior
to Sprint and Cogent peering directly with each other, how did they
communicate?  Why was that functionality broken after they started
peering?