RE: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts

["Church, Charles" <cchurc05 () harris com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: michael.dillon () bt com [mailto:michael.dillon () bt com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:52 AM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: RE: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts


> what you're calling a political failure could be what others 
> call a rate war. 


I didn't really care about this, but now I'm curious.  Since their
peering was a 'trial', I'm assuming it hasn't always been there.  Prior
to Sprint and Cogent peering directly with each other, how did they
communicate?  Why was that functionality broken after they started
peering?