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[ NNSquad ] Re: FCC Filing on Comcast and Tata by Voxel dot Net, Inc.
---- Re: FCC Filing on Comcast and Tata by Voxel dot Net, Inc. Ref: http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg04737.html ---- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:23:08 -0800 From: Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com> Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ] FCC Filing on Comcast and Tata by Voxel dot Net, Inc. It's interesting that he makes an extremely broad claim and doesn't back it up with data: "Delivering traffic to Comcast over standard 'best effort' paths, such as the transit circuits it purchases from Tata Communications, we have observed extreme packet loss for the majority of the day, dating back over six months." Without measurements, this is a lazy "because I said so" letter, easily ignored. RB ---- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:30:44 -0500 Subject: Re: voxel data From: Adam Rothschild <asr@voxel.net> We have a small glimpse of our internal analytics here, comparing deliverability over Comcast's Tata vs. Level 3 ingress: http://www.voxel.net/blog/2010/12/peering-disputes-comcast-level-3-and-you I've actually been spending a lot of work tweaking our monitoring metrics, and hope to have something covering a larger time frame available for public examination real soon. The Tata congestion is widely known and recognized in the ops community. For example, Richard Steenbergen (CTO of nLayer, a large wholesale transit provider with a lot of "big content" clients) confirms the Tata issues here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/133861 HTH, -a ------------------------- --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator