Only thing... A big company has a lot more leverage to control fair play
with IPs than you as a small provider. When you own your own block, its
real easy for a competitor (large monopoly) to block your IPs without
hesitation. Much more thought goes into wether they will block IPs by a
large power like Cogent. So there are disadvantages as well as benefits of
owning your own IPs. The same applies to peering. Do you think any of us
small ISPs will have any leverage at all to negotiate fair peering? Large
companies like Cogent have the leverage to be able to negotiate peers with
other large palyers like Level3. Level3 didn't restore connections just to
be a nice guy to the end users. They did it because they were loosing
business fast as well. Because Cogent was large enough to have that impact.
I'm now going to be doing BGP and Multi-homing because this insodent, and
for a PR perspective, I look more responsive to my customer because of it.
But the reality is, I'm not sure it puts us up with that much of an
advantage. The day, a LEVEL3 wants to block your traffic, you won't have
the leverage to get them to re-open it. What cogent did was to get us
better rates. Cogent pays, indirectly we pay. I support Cogents stance. I
do not support however that they did not give us notice to prepair for the
situation.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cogent - Level3 Current News
I hope everyone takes this opportunity to become multi-homed if you are not
already. In our case, we were already multi-homed, but all of our IPs were
allocated by Cogent simply because it was the cheapest place to get them.
During this mesh we learn that our IPs were in some cases being null
routed. As such, we have started the process of ordering our own IP block
from ARIN and have asked Cogent to assign our existing IPs to us.
-Matt
Frank Muto wrote:
Level 3 Issues Ultimatum
Restores connectivity to Cogent until Nov 9
Posted 2005-10-07 19:15:54
After restoring connectivity to Cogent this afternoon, Level 3 has now
issued a press release (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/68244)
explaining
their side of the story
(http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051007/laf057.html?.v=17). "Despite more than
75 days of advance written notice of the termination of our agreement,
Cogent apparently failed to notify its customers or make any business
plans
to prepare for disconnection," notes Sureel Choksi, executive vice
president
of Level 3 Communications.
The restored peering arrangement won't last if Cogent isn't willing to
negotiate, however.
"Level 3 has, effective immediately, re-established a free connection to
Cogent. In order to allow Internet users to make alternative arrangements,
we will maintain this connection until 6:00 a.m. ET, November 9, 2005. The
effectiveness of this arrangement of course depends on Cogent's
willingness
to maintain their side of the traffic exchange."
Frank Muto
Co-founder - Washington Bureau for ISP Advocacy - WBIA
Telecom Summit Ad Hoc Committee
http://gigabytemarch.blog.com/ www.wbia.us
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