Hi,
Sorry to bring up the B word but is Brexit causing UK operators to have to renegotiate transit and peering arrangements with their continental counterparts?
Transit and peering not so much as we do most of it in the UK so getting the packet passports is their problem. :-)
We’ve been through a lot of prep over the last couple of years on supply chains and spares holdings, and trying to reduce the probability of our support contractors going “yes, the nearest replacement card we’ve got for your P1 fault is in Amsterdam, it will be with you in four hours^H^H^H^H^Hdays^H^H^H^Hweeks.”
Plus work on our relationship with the pan-European R&E network, which is co-funded by the EC.
Looking at this: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ I imagine a fair amount of connectivity into western, central and eastern Europe will be dependent on connections via the European Union.
It’s also a concern for our Irish counterparts who would prefer their traffic to the rest of Europe not to transit the non-EU UK. Unfortunately there’s little in the way of infrastructure to avoid it at the moment…
Cheers, Rob
