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Re: Those unapologetic SOBs...
said by rantou  :Maybe Cogent had a blackhole route created then for all AS1239 traffic? No. Cogent doesn't get AS1239 routes unless they peer directly with AS1239, or pay an intermediate network for access to AS1239 routes. (paying for transit leaks routes in both directions)
Cogent could have paid NTT/Verio for transit access to AS1239 and just prepended the routes in each direction so the NTT path wouldn't be used unless the Sprint direct connections dropped. They instead chose to play chicken with an established Tier1 carrier; you can't sell bandwidth at $4/megabit without cutting several corners. |
