Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 2, 2008 @01:43PM from the it's-an-ectomy dept.

An anonymous reader brings an update to Sprint's depeering with Cogent, which we discussed a few days back — namely, Sprint's side of the story. According to them, no free peering contract had ever existed, Cogent refused to pay the bills to exchange traffic, and after a year Sprint gave Cogent 30 days notice of their intent to disconnect. During this 30-day period, when one or two connections (out of ten) per week were shut down, Cogent made no alternate arrangements to alleviate the impact on their customers — but they had a press release ready when Sprint snipped the final wire. It will be interesting to see how Cogent responds.

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Typical Cogent by realmolo · 2008-11-02 14:43 · Score: 1, Redundant

Seriously, they are *notorious* for this kind of bullshit. How many bridges do they have left to burn? Not many, I would think. I think they've pissed off all the Tier 1 and Tier 2 providers at this point.
Screw them.