C&W Peering Problem?

Fri Jun 1 20:08:37 UTC 2001

Does anyone know who was dropped?  I have been having strange connectivity
problems between my network on the C&W network and my datacenter which is on
GlobalCenter's net.  No one can tell me what is going on, but maybe this has
something to do with it.

Jason Lewis
http://www.packetnexus.com
It's not secure "Because they told me it was secure". The people at the
other end of the link know less about security than you do. And that's
scary.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Simon Lockhart
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:03 PM
To: David Diaz
Cc: Charles Scott; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: C&W Peering Problem?

>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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