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How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue

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Re: How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue

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Post by aroch »

The cynic in me wonders if this is blog post was written solely to serve as positive PR for Verizon in the face of their horrible transit/peering infrastructure management (ie. letting links run hot so they can charge transit providers more money for each increase in commit or letting peering ports run very hot because they don't want to spend the few thousand to add another 10G because they'd rather be paid for transit) before the FCC vote.

Edgecast is owned by Verizon, so cynical-me is having a hard time believing this is not a plant.

Re: How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue

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Post by shdon »

aroch wrote: post #2

The cynic in me wonders if this is blog post was written solely to serve as positive PR for Verizon in the face of their horrible transit/peering infrastructure management (ie. letting links run hot so they can charge transit providers more money for each increase in commit or letting peering ports run very hot because they don't want to spend the few thousand to add another 10G because they'd rather be paid for tran…

No company is all bad. I'm sure there are plenty of techs at Verizon and its subsidiaries that are just trying to do the best job they possibly can and are excited and rightfully proud to diagnose and fix such a problem. Looks like they did some good detective work and deserve the bragging rights.

We see similar posts pop up once in a while with other such situations (CloudFlare springs to mind). It just happens to be Verizon in this case.

Re: How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue

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Post by jacquesm »

aroch wrote: post #2

The cynic in me wonders if this is blog post was written solely to serve as positive PR for Verizon in the face of their horrible transit/peering infrastructure management (ie. letting links run hot so they can charge transit providers more money for each increase in commit or letting peering ports run very hot because they don't want to spend the few thousand to add another 10G because they'd rather be paid for tran…

They're quite up-front about edgecast being owned by verizon (see large logo at the top left of the page) and the lead sentence.

This is a pretty good write-up of what happens behind the scenes when debugging a network issue.

Re: How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue

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Post by rayiner »

aroch wrote: post #2

The cynic in me wonders if this is blog post was written solely to serve as positive PR for Verizon in the face of their horrible transit/peering infrastructure management (ie. letting links run hot so they can charge transit providers more money for each increase in commit or letting peering ports run very hot because they don't want to spend the few thousand to add another 10G because they'd rather be paid for tran…

If we injected politics into every tech article, there would be no tech articles here. Article on how Graph Search works under the hood? "But did you know Facebook makes their money peddling consumerism to kids?" Etc. At the end of the day, the technology involved in flinging all those terabits of Facebook/Twitter/Netflix content around the aether is legitimately interesting, whatever the FCC vote may be.

Re: How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue

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Post by bogomipz »

I realize Verizon bought Edgecast last year but why is the post being promoted by Edgecast and not Verizon themselves? Edgecast doesn't own or operate a backbone, they are an edge provider so this is a completely separate concern. This is typical dirty Verizon/big telco PR in my opinion.

Edgecast is a great CDN and company, I'm curious to see how this new ownership plays out.

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