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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:48:50AM -0500, David Farmer wrote:
> Level3 generally doesn't peer at public exchanges, and especially in North America.  Furthermore, most of us are not realistically peers if Level3.  Most important as Steve alludes to they don't think it is in there business interest to peer with most of us.  They think we should be their customers, and many of us are.
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> If we can keep growing the exchange there may eventually be enough other big guys here that Level3 might start private peering here in Minneapolis but, I wouldn't realistically expect them to participate in MICE.
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> On May 22, 2013, at 10:14, Steve Howard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > On 05/22/2013 10:04 AM, Eric Crist wrote:
> >> Does anyone here know why Level 3 doesn't currently peer with MICE?  Just curious at this point.
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> > I asked them about this a year or two ago.  They had no interest in
> > peering with MICE at that time. 
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> > I would expect peering to be helpful to their CDN business, but I bet
> > keeping the traffic on their transit business by not peering is more
> > lucrative.
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