On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:15:09 CDT, Robert Bonomi said:
Anybody got draft language for a SLA clause that requires routing 'at least one hop _past_ the provider's network edge' for every AS visible at major public peering points and/or LookingGlass sites?
*every* ASN? Oh my. ;)
I would qualify that a bit to say "every ASN available at every peering point at which the provider appears". So if the provider appears at an Equinix peering point, there is no excuse for not providing connectivity to every other ASN also at that same peering point by some means. Cogent seems to want to play a game where they not only don't want to peer directly with a number of networks, they also don't want to use any transit to reach those with which it doesn't peer, forcing the other side to use transit to reach them. Interesting gamble but probably not providing the intended result. It just ends up selling transit to the competition as people multi-home instead of being single-homed to Cogent. Cogent probably is the single largest seller of competitors' services.