 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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Minneapolis, MN
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 ·Clear Wireless
| Riddled with errors After a counter-suit by Cogent, which said Sprint was free to disconnect the 10 links between the two companies, that's exactly what Sprint did on October 30. Funny, because public rviews data (FixedOrbit / potaroo / others) shows several routing changes between Sprint and Cogent in the month of October that lines up with Sprint's assertion that they disconnected the circuits over several weeks.
Days after the trial completed in 2007, Sprint proclaimed at Cogent failed the test, despite the two carriers sending equal amounts of bandwidth. According to Sprint, Cogent didn't send enough as determined by the contract I'm not sure if Karl copied this wrong, or if Forbes has since corrected their story. The article now reads "This time, however, Sprint's objection was that the direct links between the two giant networks hadn't carried enough traffic under the terms of the contract. " removing the directionality blunder that either Karl created or the original article contained. The issue was that Cogent wasn't taking on enough traffic from Sprint, so Cogent customers sending to Sprint derived more value from the connection than Sprint customers sending to Cogent. |
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| That was my error in interpretation, thanks. |
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| reply to espaeth
said by espaeth:The issue was that Cogent wasn't taking on enough traffic from Sprint, so Cogent customers sending to Sprint derived more value from the connection than Sprint customers sending to Cogent. That's not really true at all, or Sprint wouldn't have turned the connections back up.
The value is both ways. Just because I'm a Sprint customer sending 80-byte http requests but receiving 1500-byte packets full of http data, doesn't mean I am getting less value than the Cogent customer I'm requesting from.
I WANTED that data as a Sprint customer, and the data is valuable to me, as a Sprint customer. I expect Sprint to get data to me that is valuable to me, if I am paying them for a connection. |
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| Well said.
Sprint's customers are the ones requesting data from Cogent's customers. |
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