this is 50/50 situation. nobody has to peer for free.
but everyone can.
lets just say above 1:1 ratio he.net pays their own ip transit price to cogent for paid peering excess amount and both sides monitor traffic
we can solve this issue by becoming middlemen worldwide...
both operators are cheap and they could all compete in quality.
level3 pays comcast reasonable (cheap) price (under NDA maybe?). why wouldnt mleber?
but to make it fair, as he.net becomes ww tier-1 operator day-by-day, lets just limit pricing to excess amount of traffic
thanks for reading
would appreciate your support
OTOH, knowing that Cogent loves splitting the global Internet is one good reason to not contract their services. I think they sell traffic to their private Intranet. Which is huge, but doesn't encompass the whole Internet. Rubens On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 12:04 PM VOLKAN KIRIK <volkirik@gmail.com> wrote:lets just say cogent gives 400GE in each pop they have in common with he.net for free. BUT they will rate-limit he.net links to previous month's 95th percentile upload or download (which is minimum) rate (each month) to make ratio 1:1... to make downstream and upstream traffics fair... okay? fine? come on people, segmentation is bad.