Net Neutrality: Cogent CEO: Interconnection Congestion Has Magically Disappeared
https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cogent-CEO-Interconnection-Congestion-Has-Magically-Disappeared-135287 A year ago, companies like Cogent and Level3 claimed AT&T, Verizon and Comcast were letting peering points saturate to kill settlement free peering and extract new direct interconnection tolls from the likes of Netflix. You probably experienced this kerfuffle as a Netflix slowdown. But after the FCC voted to approve new net neutrality rules and Cogent and Level 3 hinted they'd use the new rules to file complaints about this behavior, everybody is just getting along famously. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
