Level3 Question

Sun Oct 23 08:31:15 UTC 2005

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

>
> Okay, so I've been reading this thread on L3, and I'm a little curious as to 
> what this potential de-peering means in one unique situation.
>
> A friend of mine has got a colo box sitting, single-homed, in a (3) data 
> center.  At the end of this, is this going to mean I can't reach Cogent? I've 
> seen something in the discussions that imply this will be the case, but am 
> not ultimately sure.

Yes.  When Level3 depeers Cogent again, unless Cogent buys transit to or 
makes other arrangements for reaching Level3, you will be unable to reach 
single-homed Cogent customers (or Cogent itself) from your friend's 
single-homed Level3 colo...as you were when Level3 depeered Cogent 
previously.

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