On Tue, 25 May 2004, Juha Saarinen wrote:
It also appears that in order to receive "domestic internet connectivity" ISPs that buy international transit from TelstraClear, must also buy domestic from it.
As it is a win-win commercial arrangement at the moment, any ideas on whether Telstraclear will be paying us for the service we're providing them? eg. settlement based interconnect/ cheque swap. Pointless, but might make the beancounters happy. Needless to say we were surprised by the announcement and have communicated to our account manager and senior people at TCL that we're not impressed, and that perhaps they should reconsider the offer. We're looking at the ways to work around this... out of curiosity, does anyone know if TCL and TCNZ actually pay each other for the traffic they exchange at APE? If they don't, might be amusing to see what TCL thinks if everyone starts dumping their traffic across Global Gateway domestic transit. aj -- Network Operations || noc. +64.9.915.1825 Maxnet || cell. +64.21.639.706