Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?

Mon Nov 3 04:41:02 UTC 2008

On Nov 2, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
>> On 11/2/08, Joe Maimon <jmaimon at ttec.com> wrote:
>>> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>>> On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Nelson Lai wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why do some companies like Cogent get depeered relatively often  
>>>> and companies like Teleglobe don't even get talked about and  
>>>> operate in silence free from depeering?
>>>
>>> That's funny.  One of the first networks to de-peer Cogent was  
>>> Teleglobe.  They re-peered after a bit.
>>>
>>> The next obvious question is: When Sprint, Telia & L3 de-peering  
>>> Cogent, it causes a lot of news in the press & noise on NANOG, so  
>>> why didn't you know Teleglobe depeered Cogent?
>>
>> Imagine the news had they all depeered cogent at the same time.
>
> Imagine the lawsuits and government regulation had that occurred.

That would be none.

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TTFN,
patrick