It's funny you should mention that. I just learned that our CL traffic rides on a single lambda is a Level3 fiber. Oddly, though, the cost to buy that same circuit directly from Level3 is twice as high. Which bodes ill for circuit pricing in the reduced-competition environment following the merger. A similar thing happened to us when L3 bought TWT. In both cases L3 says "but you're getting such a better network!" Alas, that turned out to be not the case with the TWT acquisition, as merger mishaps caused numerous outages. -mel
On Oct 28, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Jared Geiger <jared@compuwizz.net> wrote:
Savvis 3561 still exists on Centurylink's side too. 6 networks down to 1 ... How much of that fiber for each network was running in the same conduit to begin with anyway?
Centurylink Qwest Savvis
Level3 Global Crossing TWTC
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:24 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
On 10/28/16 12:18 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: Level3 hasn't even finished migrating its TWTelecom customers to the L3 AS yes, and it's been years. So I don't think you can expect any faster transition for CL. 3549 still exists... -mel beckman
On Oct 28, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Timothy Lister <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.
-----Original Message----- Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications - Interweb is doomed From: Jima <nanog@jima.us> To: <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-level-3-communications-1477589011
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> To: <nanog@nanog.org>