RE: Cogent service

["Mark Borchers" <mborchers () igillc com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> David Diaz
> Subject: Re: Cogent service

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> The hop count question is interesting.  Is the consensus that it's 
> mostly a customer service issue, where latency isnt affected but 
> customer perception is?  Or is it a real latency issue as more 
> routers take a few CPU cycles to make a routing decision.
>
> Dave

An occasionally-overlooked result of engineering your network 
so that any point in your core is one hop away from any other 
point is that you negate the second-to-last BGP path selection
criteria, which will take you down to the router-ID tiebreaker
from time to time.