On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, William Waites wrote:
Surprising because, Cogent (or Telia, but from what you say here, looks
like Cogent), presumably put themselves in a breach of contract position
with their (end-user or stub AS) customers who one would imagine have
bought "Internet service" from them. Given that they have some
reasonably big/important customers it is surprising that they would take
that risk, and even more surprising that it didn't bite them too hard.
By maybe I am just easily surprised.
But, AFAICT, Cogent has done this before and even combined it with the
publicity stunt of offering free peering to any single-homed Level3
customer for a year.
Tier 1 means you don't buy transit, no?
Maybe a slightly revised definition of Tier 1 is in order -- a provider
that doesn't buy transit and doesn't sell to end-users or stub systems.
I don't know that you'll find a Tier 1 that doesn't sell to end-user
networks. It's kind of what they do. Once you start buying transit, all
the bigger networks probably figure they can get you to "pay us too."
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