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"We have plenty bandwidth at the peer level. We have plenty to the headend and the coloc. We even have plenty to the neighborhood – the operators are just holding out at the very edge until they can figure out how to exploit the service levels. When it comes to getting profit no one thinks of the users. I remember the piece of news I listened to found by http://www.mp3hunting.com SE about how during the 2008 peering dispute between Cogent and Telia, gamers whose ISPs relied solely on Cogent for connectivity were unable to access World of Warcraft, the world’s most popular online game. Peering disputes are really loud business negotiations, with angry customers used as leverage by either side. They usually end with one side agreeing to pay up or manage their traffic differently.
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