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<blockquote data-quote="LightningCrash" data-source="post: 2511822" data-attributes="member: 4278"><p>As I said earlier, I read the article. It didn't answer the questions I asked. You editorialized, and not everybody glazes over.</p><p>Just because Level3 offers a higher bandwidth on a peer link doesn't mean that accepting it is at no cost to TWC or Comcast. There are a lot of components in the stack and if they're in a position where they're slamming their existing core and edge infrastructure, then accepting more links may not be a trivial task.</p><p>Six of them they're just putting in motion to change, why aren't they done yet if it's as simple and free as you claim?</p><p></p><p>In a smaller comparison, if our upstream provider were suddenly to offer free 10Gbps to the Internet to us, it wouldn't do us a whole lot of good for a while as our edge ASAs max out at less than half of 1Gbps. We'd have to get new firewalls, transceivers obviously, rework the L2 and L3 parts of the edge, etc. It's not just flipping a switch, and if TWC/Comcast are already at 90% capacity then it's not simply swapping transceivers for them.</p><p>Do you work in networking? We're rolling out over 1000 MPLS links in the next 12 months. It's been a fun project to transition away from frame relay. We should talk shop sometime.</p><p></p><p>I do think TWC and Comcast should increase capacity at the peer links if they're really at 90%, but the article didn't name and shame, and six of them are in-progress on their 90% situation. Level 3 says they've refused, but what do we really know about the situation? What if the first six that are increasing their peering with L3 have peer congestion with other Tier 1 providers, and the other six are working on their other providers while waiting to get around to L3?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LightningCrash, post: 2511822, member: 4278"] As I said earlier, I read the article. It didn't answer the questions I asked. You editorialized, and not everybody glazes over. Just because Level3 offers a higher bandwidth on a peer link doesn't mean that accepting it is at no cost to TWC or Comcast. There are a lot of components in the stack and if they're in a position where they're slamming their existing core and edge infrastructure, then accepting more links may not be a trivial task. Six of them they're just putting in motion to change, why aren't they done yet if it's as simple and free as you claim? In a smaller comparison, if our upstream provider were suddenly to offer free 10Gbps to the Internet to us, it wouldn't do us a whole lot of good for a while as our edge ASAs max out at less than half of 1Gbps. We'd have to get new firewalls, transceivers obviously, rework the L2 and L3 parts of the edge, etc. It's not just flipping a switch, and if TWC/Comcast are already at 90% capacity then it's not simply swapping transceivers for them. Do you work in networking? We're rolling out over 1000 MPLS links in the next 12 months. It's been a fun project to transition away from frame relay. We should talk shop sometime. I do think TWC and Comcast should increase capacity at the peer links if they're really at 90%, but the article didn't name and shame, and six of them are in-progress on their 90% situation. Level 3 says they've refused, but what do we really know about the situation? What if the first six that are increasing their peering with L3 have peer congestion with other Tier 1 providers, and the other six are working on their other providers while waiting to get around to L3? [/QUOTE]
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