Cogent Unplugs Telia in Peering Dispute
Cogent Communications (CCOI) has discontinued a traffic-swapping agreement with TeliaSonera, a major European broadband network, whom also host all European World of Warcraft servers. Basically, this means that if you play World of Warcraft, this dispute makes it harder for customers using one network to connect to servers (i.e WoW ones) and web sites hosted on the other.
Here is a short part of a letter Telia sent to their customers:
Cogent has decided not to exchange traffic directly with TeliaSonera’s AS 1299 or indirectly with AS 1299 through a third-party provider. As a result, Cogent has partitioned the Internet and disrupted the flow of traffic between Cogent and TeliaSonera customers. While this has a negative impact on some users of the Internet, this effect is the result of Cogent’s decision and is unfortunately beyond TeliaSonera’s control.
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aigarslvFinally! Cogent Communications feel that they are all mighty, they have been doing this with other carriers as well.