Peers or not? Cogent, Level 3 disagree...
A war of words has broken out between Cogent Communications and Level 3 Communications, after the latter terminated a peering agreement between their two networks.
As a result of the termination, Cogent and Level 3 customers who don’t also have connections to other Internet backbones, such as those provided by MCI, AT&T or Sprint, will not be able to communicate.
The squabble is the first public debate in some time over peering arrangements, which normally are negotiated behind closed doors.
“Level 3 is thinking that Cogent’s customers will scream more because they cannot connect to Level 3 customers than Level 3 customers will scream because they cannot connect to Cogent,” said Andrew M. Odlyzko, a professor in the University of Minnesota’s Digital Technology Center.
posted by Fergie @ 10/05/2005 03:46:00 PM
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