Cogent/Level 3 depeering
Daniel Golding
dgolding at burtongroup.com
Fri Oct 7 15:31:44 UTC 2005
On 10/6/05 10:37 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
>
> On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:19 AM, tony sarendal wrote:
>
>> This is not the first and certainly not the last time we see this kind
>> of event happen.
>> Purchasing a single-homed service from a Tier-1 provider will
>> guarantee that you
>> are affected by this every time it happens.
>
> s/every time it happens/every time it happens to YOUR upstream
>
> People on Sprint, AT&T, GLBX, MCI, etc. were unaffected. Only people
> who single-home to L3 or Cogent have disconnectivity.
Take-away: Do not single home. I'm shocked folks aren't figuring this out.
If you are a webhoster or enterprise and your business model can not support
multiple Internet pipes, than you have a suboptimal business model (to put
it lightly)
>
>
>> Now, is being a tier-1 now a good or bad sales argument when selling
>> internet access ?
>
> It's still a good argument, because Marketing != Reality. :)
Dan
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