4 Nov
2008
4 Nov
'08
12:34 p.m.
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:09:31 EST, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
If Sprint & UUNET have a technical failure causing all peering to go down, Level 3 will not magically transport packets between the two, despite the fact L3 has "reliable high-bandwidth connectivity to both of those providers". How would you propose L3 bill UU & Sprint for it? On second thought, don't answer that, I don't think it would be a useful discussion.
You have to admit that it's probably a very tempting concept for some L3 beancounter, unless the resulting UU<-L3->Sprint firehose is too big for L3's core to drink from...