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You don't peer with residential ISPs, because they aren't backbone ISPs. Residential ISPs need to buy transit from Level 3. If anything, Verizon should be L3s
by gergles 12y ago
You don't peer with residential ISPs, because they aren't backbone ISPs. Residential ISPs need to buy transit from Level 3.
If anything, Verizon should be L3s customer, and L3 giving them SFP is doing Verizon a favor.
- res0nat0r 12y agoThis doesn't really have anything to do with ISP's. Verizon is a Tier 1 provider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network Yes much of the traffic ends up at end user destinations, but this doesn't negate the fact that the peering arrangement is no longer roughly equal.
- msandford 12y agoVerizon Business is NOT Verizon Residential. Those companies couldn't be more different.
- res0nat0r 12y agoIt really doesn't matter what the company name is. At the peering point the arrangement is no longer mutually beneficial for both parties due to one side of the peering arrangement now using more than its fair share or traffic. This is what Verizon has issues with.