Re: Sprint peering policy

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

At 04:15 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
>On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:57:59PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>>
>> I know Sprint won't peer with anyone small.  I said in my inital post I
>> don't stand a chance - but who knows, at the rate OC48 prices are dropping
>> maybe next year I will meet the requirements.  Attention K-Mart shoppers,
>> WorldCom OC48's on sale in isle 5. ;-)
>
>When OC48s are cheap, the peering requirements will become OC192. It has
>nothing to do with the ability to support the traffic exchanged, but
>everything to do with excluding you from peering with them.
>
>A lot of networks are now running peering requirements so hard that almost
>none of their existing peers would qualify (including some well known
>tier 1's).

This is not news.  Remember when AGIS had peering requirements that AGIS 
could not meet?


>Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

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TTFN,
patrick