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Quickly falling to HE level
Will likely end up (like HE) only good for hauling traffic between Cogent peers and dumping traffic in EU & US via Telia.
Had a few complaints in the last 24hrs about speeds from customers mostly in Indonesia. So this tracks...
Cogent customers don't have access to all of the internet, they never have. Cogent doesn't want them to.
HE has access to everything except Cogent, but HE wants the issue fixed.
Is Cogent even part of the Internet?
I am seeing my ReliableSite Los Angeles server routing traffic to Ashburn to France via Arelion/Telia to Tata.
Seeing this for OVH Hillsboro
https://pdx1-hil.smokeping.ovh.net/smokeping?target=APAC.AS9238
Cogent's new peering solutions now includes sending everyone in apac a cable to connect their devices and network!
I think reliablesite have tata communications as upstream
What do they want from TATA? That they peer with them in India so Cogent can stop paying for TATA transit there, is that the game plan?
Isn't this pretty common though, NTT doesn't let people peer with them in Hong Kong (or is it Japan, memory segault), SingTel don't in Singapore, Telstra dont in Australia? Also CU/CT will peer with people in LA but not in HK from what I remember. Seems established that you don't get to peer with people in their backyard..
Not defending TATA or Cogent, just wondering if I got the right idea here.
They are walled-garden pretending to be the internet.
oh they do. Good that more hosts have them as upstream.
This is just incumbents (NTT/Tata) not wanting to peering in their home market so Cogent isn’t peering in theirs. Over the last few years Cogent has build out a lot in APAC so they probably do fit the peering requirements of these incumbents (at least for peering in the region, probably not in country).
Cogent being seen as the bad guy here only because they’re telling their customers what’s happening. NTT/Tata are protecting their profits, Cogent is trying to make it cost more not to do it.
It’s just business.
They want them to peer in region properly. In country is a bit of a push as you stated.
This sounds like an onion headline lol.
We have TATA on net.
Who hasn't Cogent had a peering spat with lol
Cogent Europe, but I'm sure Cogent NA is working on that too.
Francisco