Cable & Wireless "de-peering"?!?

Kyle C. Bacon kbacon at fnsi.net
Mon Apr 30 14:52:33 UTC 2001


     Anyone else receive a "de-peering" letter from Cable & Wireless
recently?

     It even included a friendly "a sales representative from C&W will be
contacting you to
offer alternative services to access 3561."

     We peered with MCI prior to the spin off as well as the original C&W
network since 1997.

     Has C&W gotten so large and arrogant that they think they can de-peer
with another transit free
network and it won't hurt them?

     Who gets hurt more if a hole is created due to de-peering?  The two
networks in the
dispute or the reputation of the Internet as an unstable network held
together with loose agreements
that seem to be revisited annually and always risk getting ripped apart by
revenue driven management?

     Looks like it is time for another chapter in the "peering disputes"
NANOG archive book.

K

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