On Feb 24, 2016, at 4:48 PM, Ricky Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:48:22 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore <[email protected]> > wrote: >> And Ricky is wrong, the vast majority of prefixes Cogent routes have zero >> dollars behind them. Cogent gets paid by customers, not peers. (At least not >> the big ones.) > > Show me a single connection to Cogent for which Cogent isn't being paid. > Cogent is the only provider I've ever heard of that will not do any form of > settlement-free peering.
You really think AT&T, Comcast, Level 3, Sprint, Verizon, etc. are paying Cogent? Good thing I put my drink down before I read that. Or do you think Cogent is paying all of them? That is a possibility, but it means that Cogent is not getting paid - by definition. -- TTFN, patrick
