{"id":3771,"date":"2005-10-07T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/level-3cogent-peering-dispute.html"},"modified":"2005-10-07T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T12:06:38","slug":"level-3cogent-peering-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/level-3cogent-peering-dispute.html","title":{"rendered":"Level 3\/Cogent Peering Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"2\">I wasn\u2019t aware of the Level 3 and Cogent peering dispute until I read this <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/-cogent-peering-dispute-stealth-\/2005\/oct\/1190915.htm\"><font size=\"2\">article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">. This seems to be a legitimate problem for those companies relying on the services of either of the above named organizations. Shrihari has a good point when he says, \u201cOne way to circumvent the problem (and improve performance in general) is to establish direct Layer 2 Ethernet connections such as Stealth\u2019s Voice Peering Fabric.\u201d Of course he is biased as he runs the VPF. I am hearing more and more interest in the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/ca05\/conferences.aspx?t=VP\"><font size=\"2\">VoIP Peering Summit<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> at <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/\"><font size=\"2\">ITEXPO<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> later this month. There seems to be a dearth of information on the topic we hope to fill. This is the second time we have hosted this summit and I expect this one to be better than the last.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t aware of the Level 3 and Cogent peering dispute until I read this article. This seems to be a legitimate problem for those companies relying on the services of either of the above named organizations. Shrihari has a good point when he says, \u201cOne way to circumvent the problem (and improve performance in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}