peering wars revisited? PSI vs Exodus

[Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com>]

surprised not to see this mentioned on NANOG

> Sent:   Friday, March 31, 2000
> To:     Notify
> Subject:        Exodus Customer Confidential Communication
>
> Exodus Customer Confidential Communication
>
> Dear Exodus Customer,
>
> Exodus has been notified that PSI will be disconnecting the DS3
> connections that are in place between our networks at midnight PST Friday
> 3/31. At the time of the disconnect all connectivity to PSI networks will
> be lost. This decision and action is being made unilaterally by PSINet and
> against the request of Exodus. We continue to hope that PSI will work with
> us. However, we are working on alternate methods of connectivity to PSI at
> this time and hope to have a solution in place that will minimize the
> impact to our customers.
>
> As always, should you have any questions please feel free to contact our
> National Response Center at 1-877-393-7878.
>
> Respectfully,
> Exodus Communications, Inc.
> "The Internet Data Center Company"
Web: http://www.exodus.net

is this a replay of Exodus vs BBN?

suppose you are a big dot com web site in an exodus data center and 
you are akamaized.  are you going to notice a significant slow down 
in getting to PSI?  I wouldn't think much....but if you aren't 
akamaized what kinds of problems do you have?

Is PSI playing hardball with anyone else besides exodus?

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