 
powerspec88
Premium
join:2007-03-11
Harrisonville, MO | Thank god they did, having to use a VPN just to get to some sites is just stupid. Now what i want to know is why were we not rerouted to a different peer to get to cogent's network or is that not how it works? | |
|  | WizBomber
join:2007-10-17
Cary, NC
| Re: Thank god My West Coast Users had issues connecting to our VPN while connected to their Sprint Data Cards. Traceroutes would die in SprintLink's network.
If Sprint is going to disconnect this, they need to have backup routes created in their network. Stupid Sprint NOC. | |
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espaeth
Digital Plumber
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Minneapolis, MN
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| Re: Thank god said by WizBomber  :If Sprint is going to disconnect this, they need to have backup routes created in their network. Stupid Sprint NOC. Did you even read the update? Sprint gave Cogent 30 days notice that they would be disconnected, and links were shutdown over the entire month of October.
The events of October 30th related only to disconnection of the final two interconnects (of 10 original interconnections) between Sprint and Cogent. In addition to notifying Cogent 30 days in advance of our intent to disconnect, Sprint's first disconnect action took place on October 7th, 2008. Between October 7th and October 30th, Sprint disconnected one or two ports each week with Cogent's full awareness. During this period, Cogent failed to take any action in support of its own customers' ongoing Internet reachability even though such actions were fully under its control. From Sprint's perspective this isn't a peering dispute, this is a customer that didn't pay their bill.
It's good to be pissed off about this, but at least blame the right company. | |
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fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
| Re: Thank god This seems to be a persistent issue with Cogent.
They pull the "Company X does not want to deal with Cogent because they undercut their business model" - when in reality Cogent was just leeching off of Sprint. This is if you believe Sprint's "update" (which I would tend to believe over Cogent).
When this was a dispute with Level 3 - Level 3 accused Cogent of disproportionate usage of a SFI. Cogent came back and said "Hey - You asked us to send more traffic!". I don't know who is crying wolf there, but again I'd levy my bet against Cogent. | |
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SLD
Premium
join:2002-04-17 | Re: Thank god I'd bet against Sprint. Cogent is the underdog here... my experience is the larger the company, the bigger the lies. | |
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powerspec88
Premium
join:2007-03-11
Harrisonville, MO | But they should of had like a back up plan or something so we can still connect to cogent by going through level3, at&t, ntt, etc. I don't care if it add's hops along the way, just as long as i can still reach these sites. | |
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cybermud
join:2000-08-25
Chicago, IL
| And thats why Cogent feels they shouldn't have to pay Sprint. Enough Sprint customers need to be able to get to Cogent. And Sprint is not going to pay Level3 or AT&T or anyone else for transit to Cogent as it would weaken their negotiating power.
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skuv
@rr.com
| Re: Thank god Except that it is NOT transit that Cogent was getting from Sprint. Cogent doesn't get transit from anyone, paid or not.
Transit means you are transiting one network to get to the other. The Sprint connection for Cogent was to only get to Sprint and its single-homed customers.
If Cogent had transit, there would have been no issue with getting between Sprint and Cogent, because they would have transited another network to get there. | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | dmadole
join:2003-12-30
New London, CT
| Cybermud, you are the only one here I see who gets it.
Sprint is a dinosaur and they were too hung up in their old equal-traffic mentality. The idea that the peering was unfair because Cogent sent them more traffic than they sent Cogent was silly. Cogent doesn't just decide to randomly send them traffic, they send it because subscribers on the Sprint side request content. It's Sprint's customers that create traffic from Cogent.
I think Sprint screwed up on this, because they apparently forgot that they have an awful lot of customers, including all Sprint wireless subscribers, some federal agencies, and some big companies like Pfizer, who are single-homed to them and were probably hurt more than Cogent customers were.
I can almost imagine the internal discussions at Sprint between the Sprint Wireless division and the Sprint Internet division. I bet the wireless side was not too happy. Competitive market like that does not need to be upsetting it's customers that way.
So forget about traffic; who actually get the most benefit from the peering arrangement? I think it just might be Sprint, or maybe it's equal. And I think that's what Cogent has been saying all along.
Sprint tried to bully Cogent around, and Cogent called their bluff. As a Cogent customer, I am a little surprised how little this affected me. Sprint is not the force they seem to think they are. | |
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join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | Re: Thank god dmadole.. you do not get it at all. EPIC FAIL. | |
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join:2003-12-30
New London, CT | Re: Thank god Ooh, witty response. Wish I had thought of first. You really made your case. | |
| | | | AVonGauss
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join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL
1 edit | In the case of a Sprint EVDO broadband customer attempting to connect to a VPN (presumably on a Cogent network), shouldn't the user still have been able to connect to the VPN server using an alternate path? I could be wrong, but it just sounds like to me there is a bit more to the story than just disconnecting a series of interlinks. I just have a hard time believing Sprint and Cogent don't have at least one other peering networking in common even if it takes a couple of layers to find.
Either way, it is just silly in my opinion that this went on for so long - and that is something which both companies can be credited with. | |
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espaeth
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1 edit | Re: Thank god said by AVonGauss :In the case of a Sprint EVDO broadband customer attempting to connect to a VPN (presumably on a Cogent network), shouldn't the user still have been able to connect to the VPN server using an alternate path? In settlement-based peering, sure.
said by AVonGauss :I could be wrong, but it just sounds like to me there is a bit more to the story than just disconnecting a series of interlinks. I just have a hard time believing Sprint and Cogent don't have at least one other peering networking in common even if it takes a couple of layers to find. Settlement free peering is about the exchange of traffic from the direct customers of Carrier A and Carrier B. Sprint advertises their routes out to the likes of ATT, Level(3), GlobalCrossing, etc. so that the customers of each network can communicate. The advertisements go no further than the direct interconnection. When Sprint advertises to ATT and Verizon, the Sprint routes are not then further exchanged between ATT and Verizon.
Verizon won't pass traffic so the paying customers of Sprint can talk to the paying customers of ATT without getting some compensation for their trouble.
said by AVonGauss :Either way, it is just silly in my opinion that this went on for so long - and that is something which both companies can be credited with. Cogent has gotten into peering spats with Teleglobe, Level(3), Telia, and now Sprint. In the carrier world they're the bother with the gambling addiction that the rest of the family needs to keep bailing out, with occasional bouts of tough love.
That people still believe Cogent is the victim here is unreal. | |
| | | | | | AVonGauss
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join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL
2 edits | Re: Thank god I wasn't trying to imply that Cogent is the victim, I believe the Sprint PCS customers who had trouble connecting to sites are the victims, if anybody. I don't however feel "bad" for Sprint the corporation, from their own update in September 2007 they decided they did not want to enter in to a settlement free arrangement with Cogent. They describe it as Cogent did not disconnect from them, nor did they pay their bill - okay, but we wait a year to do it from the Sprint end? Of course not, based on other blog entries there is a lot more background than the statement published by Sprint or Cogent. | |
| | | | | | | raye
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join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA
| Some perspective (posted on previous blog entry last week) Cogent has never been a Tier 1, they have only been "transit free". Being transit free is not a difficult accomplishment, it just means that you don't announce or receive routes via a relationship which is intended to be heard by the entire Internet. You could easily go out and buy transit from each of the existing transit free networks, tag your routes with communities to only announce to customers, and become a "transit free" network with global reachability overnight. Of course, this carries with it the risk of breaking global Internet connectivity in the event of a depeering. It is well known that Cogent pays for out-of-ratio traffic with Level3 and Telia, and clearly Sprint says that they have no actual peering agreement. This doesn't have the making of a real tier 1 network.
Cogent has been stealing service from Sprint (and have been for over a year) in order to maintain their status. They used a "trial"
peering session to weasel their way into a direct connection with Sprint, and once they got it they intentionally changed their announcements so that if Sprint disconnected them it would cause unreachability.
It seems abundantly clear that this situation was created entirely by Cogent, and that they are intentionally harming their customers and the customers of Sprint in an effort to extort a settlement free relationship.
This is despicable behavior, if not outright criminal activity considering the theft of service they are committing, and it is amazing that Sprint cared enough about Internet connectivity to allow it to continue for so long, and to restore connectivity temporarily.
If any of us stopped paying for our Internet service, and set up routing so that as soon as our provider turned us off we would be reachable to them and their customers complained, then demanded that they give us free service in order to restore connectivity, we would be laughed at. That is what Cogent has done here, and just because they've done it on a large scale doesn't make it right. This specific issue will be solved in a real court and not the court of public opinion, but we should all do our parts to recognize the blatant lies Cogent has told, and to make it clear that we will not accept that kind of behavior. The last thing the Internet needs is more misguided regulation because someone actually believed Cogent's lies. | |
| | | | | | | | AVonGauss
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join:2007-11-01
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1 edit | Re: Some perspective (posted on previous blog entry last week) So you are saying if a Sprint PCS customer does not pay their bill Sprint will wait a year until they take action?
Again, this is not an attempt to defend Cogent, but I also don't for a second believe the party line that Sprint is trying to sing either. If they would have disconnected Cogento back in December of 2007, that would be an entirely different matter. | |
| | | | | | | | | raye
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Orange, CA
| Re: Some perspective (posted on previous blog entry last week) they began dis-connecting them one port at a time over the course of serveral weeks. Sprint told Cogent they were going to do this, so Cogent should not be surprised that they did.
I multi-home with both Sprint and Cogent. Cogent is my fast and cheap provider. Sprint is my fast and reliable provider. for simple web stuff cogent works great but when I absolutely positively need uptime and bandwidth (i.e. my VPNs, mail servers, DNS) I use sprint.
Nothing wrong with cogent trying to be the upstart with lowest prices. But pay your bills. | |
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NetAdmin
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join:2008-05-22
| said by WizBomber :If Sprint is going to disconnect this, they need to have backup routes created in their network. Stupid Sprint NOC. Cogent is the one that needed backup routes, not Sprint. Cogent is not a Tier 1 provider, as defined by a network with no paid transit and peering agreements. Cogent has been trying for YEARS to become a Tier 1 provider so that it doesn't have to pay for any type of transit connection or peering connection, but because its traffic ratios are so lopsided, that won't happen.
If Cogent had more PoPs, whereby more eyes could connect to their network, this problem would quickly go away. the problem is that they don't have very many eyes on their network, so it throws all of their traffic ratios out of whack.
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| | | | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Re: Thank god said by NetAdmin : Cogent is not a Tier 1 provider, as defined by a network with no paid transit and peering agreements. Cogent has been trying for YEARS to become a Tier 1 provider so that it doesn't have to pay for any type of transit connection or peering connection, but because its traffic ratios are so lopsided, that won't happen. If Cogent had more PoPs, whereby more eyes could connect to their network, this problem would quickly go away. the problem is that they don't have very many eyes on their network, so it throws all of their traffic ratios out of whack. So Cogent spits out more data (has more servers) than it sucks in (has more clients/consumer ISPs) or is it the opposite?
You mean ASNs when you say eyes right? | |
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| Re: Thank god said by patcat88 :So Cogent spits out more data (has more servers) than it sucks in (has more clients/consumer ISPs) or is it the opposite? Right. Cogent is where a lot of pron, video hosting and just general hosting companies get their cheap transport from now. If you see a hosting provider advertising an un-metered connection, they are using Cogent bandwidth.
In reality, Cogent was where most of the porn industry got their bandwidth because it was so cheap.
You mean ASNs when you say eyes right? Eyes, as is end users like people on their home connections. There is much more "content" provided on the Cogent side than there is demand to view content. So, for the most part, Cogent sends more data to peers than it tends to receive. That may have change, but it may not have.
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textonly
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| kd6cae
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| Why does Cogent always get in to these messes? What I don't understand, is why does Cogent keep having these issues? I realize they are a cheap network to be on compared to other carriers, but why should it really matter which direction traffic flows or how much flows in each direction, if in fact that is the issue?
Of course Cogentco will send out more traffic than it takes in, because folks with servers will want to connect with a cheaper network, that seems obvious. So why don't other carriers lower their bandwidth prices to that of Cogent's? And another thing I'm wondering, who piers with who? Does Cogent connect with Sprint, or did Sprint connect with Cogent? If it's a case of Cogent not paying their bill to Sprint, than that's a whole different issue entirely, but gee why can't all the networks just stay connected with one another, so we all can get where we need to go online? One of my ISP's piers is Cogent, but it's not the only peer, so I guess I'm OK there, but wow. | |
| | bugabuga
join:2004-06-10
Austin, TX
| Re: Why does Cogent always get in to these messes? Because Cogent is so much cheaper that it kills margins of other providers? If all content providers switch to Cogent because they can lower their bills 10x compared to "real Tier 1" then Sprint/ATT/whatever will have to pay Cogent because they'd be leaching too much traffic from Cogent and not provide enough to Cogent to even talk about free peering? 
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JunkieXL
join:2004-11-15
Canada! | Pier! Is a pier a peer with a pie? | |
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tech25
@comcast.net | bogus transactions This is why the Internet will come to suck (similar to the US electric grid) - lets all charge each other, allot, for something we all made up anyways, and forget about the real customers at the bottom who will end up with crappy service regardless. | |
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Sprint Temporarily Reconnects With Cogent