18 Dec
2002
18 Dec
'02
5:10 p.m.
Me thinks Cogent doesn't have a problem with congestion on the inbound direction. Fix your reverse path.
Customers of Cogent should be/are more concerned about congestion on the inbounds at Level3 <-> Cogent; outbound is way too easy to control.
Cogent has a pile of available inbound - websites tend to send traffic out, not take traffic in.
Somewhat true. Yet still if the inbound from one of the major players is really saturated wouldn't that hurt Cogent customers.
When you have symmetric links [same up/down] (which basically all links are) the probability of the inbound link from others being saturated for a company that provides mostly transit to webhosters is nill to nothing. Alex