Re: Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?

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

On Nov 2, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> > On 11/2/08, Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com> wrote:
> > > Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > > > On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Nelson Lai wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Why do some companies like Cogent get depeered relatively often  
> > > > and companies like Teleglobe don't even get talked about and  
> > > > operate in silence free from depeering?
> > >
> > > That's funny.  One of the first networks to de-peer Cogent was  
> > > Teleglobe.  They re-peered after a bit.
> > >
> > > The next obvious question is: When Sprint, Telia & L3 de-peering  
> > > Cogent, it causes a lot of news in the press & noise on NANOG, so  
> > > why didn't you know Teleglobe depeered Cogent?
> >
> > Imagine the news had they all depeered cogent at the same time.
>
> Imagine the lawsuits and government regulation had that occurred.

That would be none.

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TTFN,
patrick