Cable & Wireless "de-peering"?!?

Tue May 8 08:08:40 UTC 2001

> 	Another possible disadvantage with 'free' peering is you may have a harder
> time getting the larger companies to deal with issues that arise surrounding
> that peering. They may feel they have no financial incentive to worry about
> it, and you really have no contractual leverage to get, for example,
> response time guarantees.

Isnt the financial issue and management overhead less (relatively) for a
large company with a large well ordered NOC than that of a small one? So
their only excuse remains the one that they 'think your too small to care'

Steve