At 04:15 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:57:59PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
I know Sprint won't peer with anyone small. I said in my inital post I don't stand a chance - but who knows, at the rate OC48 prices are dropping maybe next year I will meet the requirements. Attention K-Mart shoppers, WorldCom OC48's on sale in isle 5. ;-)
When OC48s are cheap, the peering requirements will become OC192. It has nothing to do with the ability to support the traffic exchanged, but everything to do with excluding you from peering with them.
A lot of networks are now running peering requirements so hard that almost none of their existing peers would qualify (including some well known tier 1's).
This is not news. Remember when AGIS had peering requirements that AGIS could not meet?
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
-- TTFN, patrick