molex
12-21-2002, 04:41 AM
All you guys having trouble with downtime - cogent round trips to aol are at 2.2seconds which is awful . Found this
>From Cogent:
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The issue in this case is with AOL. We have had an ongoing peering
relationship with them based on a connection of 2 OC-12s. We recently
upgraded these connections to include 2 OC-48s to accommodate our
significant traffic exchange. These connections have been up and running
smoothly for 2 weeks now. Overall, we've spent over $100 thousand to create
this robust peering infrastructure.
This week, however, AOL announced a unilateral decision to cut off all our
connections. This announcement came as a surprise to all involved and the
reasons behind it remain unclear.
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It seems that the loss of peering with AOL is causing performance issues for
companies relying on Cogent transit. Given the amount of discussion that
goes on here regarding Cogent and similar operators, I thought the
information might be of interest.
There is actually very little "discussion" on it on the list...
And the thing is neither cogent nor aol appear to say what really happen
and are glad to point to each other (cogent most of all - at the end they
even say "We encourage you to contact the AOL Customer Support number at
xxxx or AOL NOC at xxx to register your complaint").
>From Cogent:
====================================
The issue in this case is with AOL. We have had an ongoing peering
relationship with them based on a connection of 2 OC-12s. We recently
upgraded these connections to include 2 OC-48s to accommodate our
significant traffic exchange. These connections have been up and running
smoothly for 2 weeks now. Overall, we've spent over $100 thousand to create
this robust peering infrastructure.
This week, however, AOL announced a unilateral decision to cut off all our
connections. This announcement came as a surprise to all involved and the
reasons behind it remain unclear.
===================================
It seems that the loss of peering with AOL is causing performance issues for
companies relying on Cogent transit. Given the amount of discussion that
goes on here regarding Cogent and similar operators, I thought the
information might be of interest.
There is actually very little "discussion" on it on the list...
And the thing is neither cogent nor aol appear to say what really happen
and are glad to point to each other (cogent most of all - at the end they
even say "We encourage you to contact the AOL Customer Support number at
xxxx or AOL NOC at xxx to register your complaint").