I would have said OK, and then we'll go ahead and renew your contract with us at current price + $X/Mbps.
Jeff On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Richard A Steenbergen <r...@e-gerbil.net> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:45:53AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> We have seen the same thing with other carriers. As far as I can see, >> Comcast is congested, at least at Equinix in San Jose. Since this is >> all over private connections (at least in our case), the fabric is not >> an issue. >> >> Maybe they will be using the money from Level(3) to increase capacity >> on the peerings with the transit providers. (Or maybe not.) > > I don't know about their connection to TWT, but Comcast has definitely > been running their transits congested. The most obvious one from recent > months is Tata, which appears to be massively congested for upwards of > 12 hours a day in some locations. Comcast has been forcing traffic from > large networks who refuse to peer with them (e.g. Abovenet, NTT, Telia, > XO, etc) to route via their congested Tata transit for a few months now, > their Level3 transit is actually one of the last uncongested providers > that they have. > > The part that I find most interesting about this current debacle is how > Comcast has managed to convince people that this is a peering dispute, > when in reality Comcast and Level3 have never been peers of any kind. > Comcast is a FULL TRANSIT CUSTOMER of Level3, not even a paid peer. This > is no different than a Comcast customer refusing to pay their cable > modem bill because Comcast "sent them too much traffic" (i.e. the > traffic that they requested), and then demanding that Comcast pay them > instead. Comcast is essentially abusing it's (in many cases captive) > customers to extort other networks into paying them if they want > uncongested access. This is the kind of action that virtually BEGS for > government involvement, which will probably end badly for all networks. > > If there is any doubt about any of this, you can pop on over to > lg.level3.net and look at the BGP communities Comcast is tagging on > their Level3 transit service, preventing the routes from being exported > to certain peers. For example, to my home cable modem: > > Community: North_America Lclprf_100 Level3_Customer United_States > Chicago2 EU_Suppress_to_Peers Suppress_to_AS174 Suppress_to_AS1239 > Suppress_to_AS1280 Suppress_to_AS1299 Suppress_to_AS1668 > Suppress_to_AS2828 Suppress_to_AS2914 Suppress_to_AS3257 > Suppress_to_AS3320 Suppress_to_AS3549 Suppress_to_AS3561 > Suppress_to_AS3786 Suppress_to_AS4637 Suppress_to_AS5511 > Suppress_to_AS6453 Suppress_to_AS6461 Suppress_to_AS6762 > Suppress_to_AS7018 Suppress_to_AS7132 > > -- > Richard A Steenbergen <r...@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) > > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications - AS32421 First and Leading in DDoS Protection Solutions
