Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

ISP chicken fight leads to ‘Net outages

Opinion
Oct 7, 20051 min

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Internet backbone providers Level 3 and Cogent are having an ugly break-up, which is affecting some ‘Net availability in the U.S. and Europe.

On Wednesday Level 3 broke off its peering agreement with Cogent over – you guessed it – money. Level 3, the larger company, wanted Cogent to raise its rates claiming Level 3 was doing most of the heavy lifting and Cogent was getting the better end of the deal.

Negotiations went nowhere and now those who are single-homed to either network can’t access sites hosted by the other. More info here.