And I'm sure it would go about as well as the TW integration went. Level3 is currently having issues, we lost BGP just a bit ago and also legacy voice trunks have been down since first thing this morning. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2016, at 2:17 PM, Timothy Lister <incudie@gmail.com<mailto:incudie@gmail.com>> wrote: So if this went through, how would it happen? Does 3356 (L3) absorb 209's (CL) infrastructure and slowly make customers change their peering config to hit 3356 instead? You make a good point, I have at least a couple clients that peer to both providers for redundancy. One of which just recently signed an agreement with CenturyLink for the sole purpose of fail over. Luke Guillory Network Operations Manager [cid:image9bee0e.JPG@604f5a4c.42a728e5] <http://www.rtconline.com> Tel: 985.536.1212 Fax: 985.536.0300 Email: lguillory@reservetele.com Web: www.rtconline.com Reserve Telecommunications 100 RTC Dr Reserve, LA 70084 Disclaimer: The information transmitted, including attachments, is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material which should not disseminate, distribute or be copied. Please notify Luke Guillory immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Luke Guillory therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. -----Original Message----- Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications - Interweb is doomed From: Jima <nanog@jima.us<mailto:nanog@jima.us>> To: <nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> On 10/27/2016 12:36, Nevin Gonsalves via NANOG wrote: :-) http://www.wsj.com/articles/centurylink-in-advanced-talks-to-merge-with-leve... This is great! Except for all of their mutual customers who had circuits from both for redundancy. (See also: Level 3's and TWTC's mutual customers, and probably a long list of other M&A I'm not thinking of off-hand.) OK, I lied about it being great anyway. Jima -----Original Message----- Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications - Interweb is doomed From: Jima <nanog@jima.us<mailto:nanog@jima.us>> To: <nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>>