Comcast NOC Contact

Mon Mar 4 06:28:32 UTC 2013

Uhm, no I did not.  I'd be happy to review your request.  Send over
your ASN to the proper channels please. -ren_provo at cable.comcast.com

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Vinod K <vinod408 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> What congested links r u seeing?
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> When we contacted Comcast for peering, Ren Provo explain that ratios r balanced b/c of their media and cloud products... imbalance is common misunderstanding.
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> Vinod
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>> From: wingcomm at hotmail.com
>> To: jra at baylink.com; nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: RE: Comcast NOC Contact
>> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:35:59 -0500
>>
>> 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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