ATT-Level 3 Peering

Wed Feb 8 22:44:58 UTC 2017

I had a very clueless ATT salesperson tell me yesterday that “Our company policy is we don’t do BGP sessions.”  I have a client wanting to use ATT as an upstream and they won’t do BGP (mainly due to clueless sales). If this is the level of comp tenancy then good luck.  :-)

Justin Wilson
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> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Van Dyk, Donovan via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
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> We’ve been running into a lot of problems lately with ATT peering lately. Level3 included.
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> We have multiple carriers and most of them have run into this issue over the past couple months where there is congestion between ATT and our carriers, it appears there is a political issue on who should pay for the peering and bandwidth. 
> My colleague says he heard on the grapevine (Horrible source I know) that ATT is playing super hardball and requesting big cash for peering with them. 
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> Anyways, that’s all I got. 
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> Cheers
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> Donovan Van Dyk
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> On 2/5/17, 8:21 PM, "david peahi" <davidpeahi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>    We're seeing frequent dropped packets between ATT and Level 3 in Atlanta
>    with traffic sourced from an ATT user destined for Microsoft Office 365,
>    making Office 365 apps unusable during critical business hours. Anyone else
>    have this problem with ATT?
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