Comcast NOC Contact

Sun Mar 3 19:35:59 UTC 2013

Yeah, I've been hitting congested links with several of my customers. This was just a case of one of our customer's prefixes taking an extra long journey from one region to another.
Thank you to all who responded! I think we might on our way to remediating this small issue!
-Rob

> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 11:03:10 -0500
> From: jra at baylink.com
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Comcast NOC Contact
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> 
> > > For providers who have an overall asymmetric traffic profile towards
> > > Comcast, it's a matter of perspective as to whether you view this as
> > > the providers sending Comcast traffic or Comcast customers pulling it.
> > > So it's hardly surprising that there are disagreements about who gets to pay
> > > the other for the interconnection arrangements.
> 
> Saying that it's a matter of perspective is a false dichotomy.
> 
> If the providers go away, the Comcast customers will pull traffic from 
> other providers.
> 
> If the *customers* go away...
> 
> Nope; Comcast is acting as the agent of its customers to pull in traffic
> they want to see, and if it isn't charging them enough for that, that is
> *Comcast's* problem.  
> 
> It's really a bright-line answer.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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