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Level 3 and Cogent Reach Agreement on Peering

Posted by Zonk on from the internet-back-to-normal dept.

Armour Hotdog writes "Level3 and Cogent have announced an agreement on a modified peering contract that provides for settlement-free peering subject to certain unspecified conditions. This is a welcome announcement considering the disruption caused earlier when Level3 depeered Cogent. After that earlier dispute, Level3 temporarily restored peering, but announced that they would once again depeer Cogent on November 9th, unless the parties could come to an agreement."

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  1. Stronger ties, but still breakable by elm3r · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the new agreement, there are clauses that state that Level3 can again try to charge Cogent if their traffic amount is grossly over that of Level3's. So, while this is definitely an improvement, it doesn't rid all potential future problems.

    If anything, this definitely hammers home the idea of multihoming...

  2. Re:Cogent isn't without fault here by slive · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope. Routing over one network to get to another is called *transit*. Cogent refused to pay for transit to get to L3. So they still had plenty of peering arangements with other networks, but none of those peering arangements allowed Cogent to reach L3. (And the same could be said in reverse.)