CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications - Interweb is doomed

Fri Oct 28 19:23:19 UTC 2016

And I'm sure it would go about as well as the TW integration went. Level3 is currently having issues, we lost BGP just a bit ago and also legacy voice trunks have been down since first thing this morning.

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On Oct 28, 2016, at 2:17 PM, Timothy Lister <incudie at gmail.com<mailto:incudie at 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.

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-----Original Message-----
Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications -
Interweb is doomed
From: Jima <nanog at jima.us<mailto:nanog at jima.us>>
To: <nanog at nanog.org<mailto:nanog at 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 <nanog at jima.us<mailto:nanog at jima.us>>
To: <nanog at nanog.org<mailto:nanog at nanog.org>>