Just to make something clear. I do not own any stock, interest or have any official relationship with Verizon or Cogent. The opinions expressed are mine and mine alone as I have come to understand some of the relationship without the aid of any privileged information. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Edward Roels <edwardroels@gmail.com> wrote:
Cogent support uses the same response when inquiring about Comcast, CenturyLink, Tata, AT&T etc.
Yup, certainly a common thread there. It wouldn't take a lot of digging to determine that those "peers" are most likely compensated in some way shape or form. Hence the lack of response by the remote "peer" to upgrade what would most likely be a paid peer.
If the "Tier 1s" are really keeping each other congested, are they not creating an environment where you have to buy from each of them to have a chance at congestion free paths? Or peer around them.
The term tier 1 is a marketing term. The last time I looked Cogent was default free, but certainly not settlement free. Good luck peering around a lot of the networks in which they have congestion from. The only real way would be to order additional capacity, buy transit or live with the situation long enough for customers complain to the remote network. If that doesn't work then force a partition with the end objective of Cogent to change from a compensated peer to a settlement free peer. It's a fun game, it's unfortunate that customer flows have to be used to force it. Let me help translate the canned response.
All I have gotten from Cogent is a canned response:
--- The latency and/or packet loss that you are experiencing to this destination is due to occasional high traffic with Verizon.
We are sorry that we transmit more traffic to Verizon than we are willing to pay Verizon for.
We have repeatedly requested augments to these congestion points and hope Verizon will comply soon.
We have demanded that the compensated peers be converted to settlement free peers with greater capacity, with little to no response.
While this has been escalated internally to the CEO level, we encourage you to also contact Verizon customer support with your concerns and complaints.
Our CEO is aware that this will cost money but is unwilling to pay for additional bandwidth, so we are in a stalemate and want customers to complain to Verizon in the hopes that the squeaky wheel will get the grease or in other terms, free capacity.
Their delay is a major impediment to internet traffic overall and contrary to net neutrality requirements.
Since the connectivity is compensated, Verizon refuses to provide additional bandwidth at an acceptable (free) cost. So, no money equals no additional customer capacity.
Our peering engineers will continue to address this on a daily basis until resolved.
Our peering folks will continue to pester Verizon's non-commercial folks by requesting settlement free peers but until enough people complain to Verizon the requests will fall on deaf ears. thanks, charles