Anyone else receive a "de-peering" letter from Cable & Wireless
recently?
It even included a friendly "a sales representative from C&W will be
contacting you to
offer alternative services to access 3561."
We peered with MCI prior to the spin off as well as the original C&W
network since 1997.
Has C&W gotten so large and arrogant that they think they can de-peer
with another transit free
network and it won't hurt them?
Who gets hurt more if a hole is created due to de-peering? The two
networks in the
dispute or the reputation of the Internet as an unstable network held
together with loose agreements
that seem to be revisited annually and always risk getting ripped apart by
revenue driven management?
Looks like it is time for another chapter in the "peering disputes"
NANOG archive book.
K
Who gets hurt more if a hole is created due to de-peering?
you do. c&w loses .00001 of the net. you lose .02. next question.
randy
> Who gets hurt more if a hole is created due to de-peering?
you do. c&w loses .00001 of the net. you lose .02. next question.
randy
Not so fast. While each of his customers is more inconvenienced than each
c&w customer, c&w has more customers. The net inconvenience (total number of
people inconvenienced multiplied by the average inconvenience to each) might
be nearly the same on both sides. As an added bonus, he has someone else to
blame.
DS
PS: Sorry for the late reply. I was away for a week.
That depends. Somebody that small (0.0001) is not going to be transit
free... so there isn't really a hole created. Sure, the smaller guy is
going to be paying more on transit rather than peering, but C&W customers
probably won't notice a thing, other than some relief on the congested
pipes to the public peering points.