Re:Verizon's accidental mea culpa
by rhino369 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:58PM
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The issue is that Verizon is both a transit provider and a last mile ISP.
For transit providers, asymmetry = Paid.
For local ISPs, they are typically willing to asymmetrically peer because they'd otherwise have to pay transit.
Since verizon is a T1 transit provider, it doesn't want to give it's service away for free.
I think the fair answer in this dispute depends on whether L3 and Cogent are forcing Verizon to provide transit for free or are they just delivering the data the local network for the customer (like a local ISP peering arrangement).
I'm not sure which is going on. If L3 is just dumping Netflix packets on the nearest Verizon peering location, well then Verizon is providing them a transit service. If L3 carries the data all the way to the local network, then it's not transit at all.
I'm not sure what is actually happening. I'd imagine a mix of both.
For transit providers, asymmetry = Paid.
For local ISPs, they are typically willing to asymmetrically peer because they'd otherwise have to pay transit.
Since verizon is a T1 transit provider, it doesn't want to give it's service away for free.
I think the fair answer in this dispute depends on whether L3 and Cogent are forcing Verizon to provide transit for free or are they just delivering the data the local network for the customer (like a local ISP peering arrangement).
I'm not sure which is going on. If L3 is just dumping Netflix packets on the nearest Verizon peering location, well then Verizon is providing them a transit service. If L3 carries the data all the way to the local network, then it's not transit at all.
I'm not sure what is actually happening. I'd imagine a mix of both.