On 5/22/24 16:55, Scott Q. wrote:
Hi Mark,
thank you for the very informative post! In the meantime, our own
provider moved some routes from GTT to...Cogent and the times
decreased within the normal range. Also a few VPS providers such as
EdgeNext are using NTT & Cogent and show no issues either. So it seems
some providers experience an extra 80ms delay for some reason, I
wonder why. This is our new traceroute
Yeah - best thing to do would be to reach out to a problematic provider
and ask them for an explanation.
Usually, if they have bought directly from a subsea provider, then
restoring from a subsea outage may be complex depending on how well they
secured themselves both from a diversity and capacity standpoint.
If they are a customer of a major transit provider, then their
provider's subsea inventory situation is similar to my point above.
It is very hard to tell unless you ask someone on the inside, but as
these things do, when cables get cut, latency and packet loss increases
are not unexpected, especially for small/local/regional ISP's that can't
afford to have direct access to multiple subsea systems. And in cases
where alternative options are either too costly or non-existent, the
latency and packet loss penalty would be sustained longer than necessary.
Depending on where you are in the food chain, subsea restoration efforts
following a major cut can increase normal pricing by 3X - 5X,
particularly if the restoration capacity is taken on a short-term basis,
e.g., 3 months.
Mark.
