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utterly stupid. comcast is a customer of level3, not a peer. even though marketing has blurred the lines (i blame overly ambitious hosting companies), there is
by oogali 16y ago
utterly stupid.
comcast is a customer of level3, not a peer. even though marketing has blurred the lines (i blame overly ambitious hosting companies), there is a very large difference between peering and being a transit customer.
what applies here is a transit agreement, even though george ou completely skips over that in his analysis by assuming comcast is not a customer.
to be redundant: this is not a peering spat, because comcast and level3 DO NOT PEER, comcast is a level3 customer.
customer.
customer.
- pilom 16y agoRight, where comcast pays L3 to deliver what comcast has to send. L3 still needs to pay someone (either comcast or someone else) to take the what they have to offer. No one wants traffic, thats why L3 has to pay to send Netflix to customers.
- wmf 16y agoUsually in a transit relationship the customer pays for the whole pipe; there isn't accounting of incoming vs. outgoing.
- tbrownaw 16y ago> comcast is a customer of level3 It sounds to me like they used to be equals, and now Level3 is the customer.