[c-nsp] Routing Problem - MCI/GT/Level3 - Puzzled

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:17:44AM -0500, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Yes, AS701 for us here in North America...:)  We have known that GT has a
> lot of peers and have done a great job in that respect...
> 
> We're just surprised that MCI doesn't have "reach" given their sheer size in
> comparison.... 

You misunderstand.  If MCI has a lot more *peers*, while GT has *upstreams*,
other provider will prefer GT to MCI, because they get money from GT - and
not from MCI.

So the problem is not "MCI not big enough" but "GT being too small".

gert
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