Sprint peering policy

Thu Jun 27 20:30:06 UTC 2002

At 04:15 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
 >
 >On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:57:59PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
 >>
 >> I know Sprint won't peer with anyone small.  I said in my inital post I
 >> don't stand a chance - but who knows, at the rate OC48 prices are dropping
 >> maybe next year I will meet the requirements.  Attention K-Mart shoppers,
 >> WorldCom OC48's on sale in isle 5. ;-)
 >
 >When OC48s are cheap, the peering requirements will become OC192. It has
 >nothing to do with the ability to support the traffic exchanged, but
 >everything to do with excluding you from peering with them.
 >
 >A lot of networks are now running peering requirements so hard that almost
 >none of their existing peers would qualify (including some well known
 >tier 1's).

This is not news.  Remember when AGIS had peering requirements that AGIS 
could not meet?

 >Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

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TTFN,
patrick