From: Scott Call (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 19:37:13 EDT
Bessant, Chuck wrote:
>
> I have been working a ticket with Qwest regarding our upstream through
> them in Portland. I was informed by a Qwest engineer that, as a
> result of their merger with US West, they are under an FCC mandate not
> to traffic data directly through AS3908. This AS serves the NW and
> the Denver area according to this engineer.
>
> THE CAVEAT as related by the engineer is as follows: our
> advertisements should, technically, be propagated out to the
> Internet...however, all traffic would first hit Qwest's network, then
> go through the Cable & Wireless network, then back through Qwest to
> us...in other words, even if our routes *were* being propagated
> properly, we would probably have to do some kind of prepending or
> other preferencing to get traffic flowing in Qwest's direction and
> even then it would certainly not be an optimal path through the network.
>
> Has anyone experienced this problem with AS3908 & Qwest?
>
We killed our "Not-Qwest" transit because of *10 latency last friday.
Anyone had any good experience with "Not-Qwest" in the pacific north-west?
-scott
> Thanks.
>
> Chuck
>
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