Re: Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?

[Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>]

Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Nelson Lai wrote:
>
> > Why do some companies like Cogent get depeered relatively often and 
> > companies like Teleglobe don't even get talked about and operate in 
> > silence free from depeering?
>
> That's funny.  One of the first networks to de-peer Cogent was 
> Teleglobe.  They re-peered after a bit.
>
> The next obvious question is: When Sprint, Telia & L3 de-peering Cogent, 
> it causes a lot of news in the press & noise on NANOG, so why didn't you 
> know Teleglobe depeered Cogent? 

Imagine the news had they all depeered cogent at the same time.