I think this thread might be a perfect example that when an organization reaches a sufficiently large size, one part of its engineering/operations team may no longer be fully aware of what other work groups are doing. Definitely a structural challenge for ISPs that span very large geographical areas and services/roles.

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 11:06 AM Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
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> On 12/6/19 06:46, Fawcett, Nick via NANOG wrote:
>> We had three onsite Akamai caches a few months ago. They called us up and said they are removing that service and sent us boxes to pack up the hardware and ship back. We’ve had quite the increase in DIA traffic as a result of it.
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> Same here, removed last month, and no more Akamai traffic over peering since.

This last part doesn’t sound right.

Can you send me details in private?

Thanks,

- Jared