RE: Comcast NOC Contact

[Vinod K <vinod408 () hotmail com>]

What congested links r u seeing?

When we contacted Comcast for peering, Ren Provo explain that ratios r balanced b/c of their media and cloud 
products... imbalance is common misunderstanding.

Vinod

> From: wingcomm () hotmail com
> To: jra () baylink com; nanog () nanog org
> Subject: RE: Comcast NOC Contact
> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:35:59 -0500
>
> Yeah, I've been hitting congested links with several of my customers. This was just a case of one of our customer's 
> prefixes taking an extra long journey from one region to another.
> Thank you to all who responded! I think we might on our way to remediating this small issue!
> -Rob
>
> > Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 11:03:10 -0500
> > From: jra () baylink com
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: Comcast NOC Contact
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:
> >
> > > > For providers who have an overall asymmetric traffic profile towards
> > > > Comcast, it's a matter of perspective as to whether you view this as
> > > > the providers sending Comcast traffic or Comcast customers pulling it.
> > > > So it's hardly surprising that there are disagreements about who gets to pay
> > > > the other for the interconnection arrangements.
> >
> > Saying that it's a matter of perspective is a false dichotomy.
> >
> > If the providers go away, the Comcast customers will pull traffic from 
> > other providers.
> >
> > If the *customers* go away...
> >
> > Nope; Comcast is acting as the agent of its customers to pull in traffic
> > they want to see, and if it isn't charging them enough for that, that is
> > *Comcast's* problem.  
> >
> > It's really a bright-line answer.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
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