Re: Sprint / Cogent

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> > > The most interesting part of the press release to me is:
> >
> > > In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides  
> > > service,
> > > Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is  
> > > unable to
> > > connect to Cogent's customers a free 100 megabit per second  
> > > connection to
> > > the Internet for as long as Sprint continues to keep this  
> > > partitioning of
> > > the Internet in place.  Unfortunately, there is no way that Cogent  
> > > can do
> > > the same for the wireless customers of Sprint-Nextel.
> >
> > This wasn't the first time Cogent offered something similar.  They  
> > did the
> > same thing when Level3 depeered them.
>
> And they'll do it to others in future peering spats.  It's just a  
> bullying tactic - entertaining if you're on the sideline; irritating  
> if you're Sprint.

I would regard this as a good sales tactic. I don't see bullying.

Regards
Marshall

> Cogent reminds me of Ethan Coen's poem, which starts:
>
>         The loudest has the final say,
>         The wanton win, the rash hold sway,
>         The realist's rules of order say
>         The drunken driver has the right of way.
>
> Nick