C&W Peering Problem?

Fri Jun 1 19:02:38 UTC 2001

>I was wondering when this issue was going to be brought up.  C&W 
>dropped peering with several backbones.  I will bet the problems 
>started about a week ago. 

Probably because they didn't meet the new C&W peering requirements.

They sent me a link to their peering requirements the other week when I 
asked. Basically, to peer you have to have an OC48 backbone with 
redundantly connected nodes in 9 regions of the USA (according to their 
definition of regions), peering at 4 diverse locations, with a minimum of 
45Mbit/s of traffic at each location.

Interestingly, C&W's network map doesn't show PoP's in all of their 9 
regions.

Simon
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