cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

Mon Oct 2 21:33:09 UTC 2023

On 10/2/23 22:59, Matthew Petach wrote:

> Huh?
>
> In all my decades of time in the network industry, I have never seen a 
> case where a smaller transit contract had lower per mbit cost than a 
> larger volume contract.
>
> I would expect that HE would make *more* money off 10 smaller customer 
> transit contracts than one big tier 3 wholesaler transit contract.

That's my point.

Smaller ISP's will get better per-Mbps rates from their direct upstreams 
than they would from HE/Cogent. The rates they'd get from HE/Cogent 
would be to HE's/Cogen's favour, and not to the ISP's favour.

So if the goal is transit-free glory vanity, HE/Cogent would have to 
take a bit of a haircut which they "could" make up in contract length.

Just another way to skin the cat.

Mark.