Cogent CEO: Interconnection Congestion Has Magically Disappeared A year ago, companies like Cogent and Level3 claimed AT&T, Verizon and Comcast were letting peering points saturate to kill settlement free peering and extract new direct interconnection tolls from the likes of Netflix. You probably experienced this kerfuffle as a Netflix slowdown. But after the FCC voted to approve new net neutrality rules and Cogent and Level 3 hinted they'd use the new rules to file complaints about this behavior, everybody is just getting along famously.

Cogent recently proclaimed companies like Comcast are added capacity wherever needed , and Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer this week stated that the FCC's net neutrality rules have resulted in all of the previously-problematic congestion magically disappearing "The adoption of the Open Internet order and Title II jurisdictional authority were mirrored in the EU and on June 30 the European Commission adopted a set of regulations that were passed by the parliament and the council," Schaeffer said. "As a result of that we have seen significant port augmentations." According to Schaeffer, its connections with AT&T and Verizon "are nearly congestion free and will be completely congestion free sometime in the fourth quarter." The CEO notes he continues to have successful negotiations with other ISPs as well. "We are in active negotiations with Time Warner Cable and CenturyLink and we believe we will get deals done based on the threat of litigation under the current regulatory rules," Schaeffer said. That's fairly impressive for net neutrality rules most of these companies claimed would destroy the Internet. That's fairly impressive for net neutrality rules most of these companies claimed would destroy the Internet.







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TIGERON

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Boston, MA 13 recommendations TIGERON Member This shouldn't surprise anyone ISPs AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, CenturyLink like any other corporate entity want their cake and eat it too until rules that apply fairness to everyone forces them to behave.

djrobx

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Valencia, CA 8 recommendations djrobx Premium Member Neutrality? Or just that Netflix deals are done? I thought AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, have finished extorting money from making deals with Netflix. So it seems only natural that they'd let the traffic flow now.

camper

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Bethel, CT 2 recommendations camper Premium Member Crying wolf

If the ISPs continue to cry wolf anytime the FCC tries to make the Internet a better place for the end users of the Internet, well, you know how the story ends....



Next thing the FCC should look at closely is the implementation of usage caps to maintain cable's monopoly in video delivery. The last mile is rapidly becoming an essential facility (if it hasn't gotten there already), and the cable companies should act accordingly.