[tetaneutral] Level3: Observations of an Internet Middleman

[Laurent GUERBY]

Bonjour,

La saga continue sur la neutralité du net aux USA avec
de nouvelles communications de level3 :

http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/verizons-accidental-mea-culpa/
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/07/18/1230220/verizons-accidental-mea-culpa

Les episodes precedents :

http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/heads-isps-win-tails-you-lose/
http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/when-the-middleman-and-isp-are-aligned/

Sincèrement,

Lauirent

On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 18:08 +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> Via slashdot :
> 
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/05/06/1256259/internet-transit-provider-claims-isps-deliberately-allow-port-congestion
> http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-internet-middleman/
> 
> On y trouve des données tres interessantes sur la structure
> de l'internet, et la guerre actuelle entre les FAI
> et le reste de l'internet, quelques citations ci-apres.
> 
> Sincèrement,
> 
> Laurent
>  
> "While Level 3 has tens of thousands of customers, it only has 51 peers"
> 
> "For example, 48 of the 51 Level 3 peering agreements are settlement
> free. "
> 
> "The table below shows the connection locations Level 3 has with its
> peers, and the total interconnection capacity exceeds 13,600Gbps."
> 
> "Level 3 has 51 peers that are interconnected in 45 cities through over
> 1,360 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (plus a few smaller ports). The
> distribution of that capacity with individual peers ranges from a single
> 10 Gigabit Ethernet port to 148 ports. The average number of
> interconnection cities per peer is five, but ranges from one to 20."
> 
> "The average utilization across all those interconnected ports is 36
> percent. "
> 
> "A port that is on average utilised at 90 percent will be saturated,
> dropping packets, for several hours a day. We have congested ports
> saturated to those levels with 12 of our 51 peers. Six of those 12 have
> a single congested port, and we are both (Level 3 and our peer) in the
> process of making upgrades – this is business as usual and happens
> occasionally as traffic swings around the Internet as customers change
> providers."
> 
> "That leaves the remaining six peers with congestion on almost all of
> the interconnect ports between us. Congestion that is permanent, has
> been in place for well over a year and where our peer refuses to augment
> capacity. They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to
> their paying customers. They are not allowing us to fulfil the requests
> their customers make for content.
> 
> Five of those congested peers are in the United States and one is in
> Europe. There are none in any other part of the world. All six are large
> Broadband consumer networks with a dominant or exclusive market share in
> their local market. In countries or markets where consumers have
> multiple Broadband choices (like the UK) there are no congested peers."
> 
> "One final point; the companies with the congested peering interconnects
> also happen to rank dead last in customer satisfaction across all
> industries in the U.S.[2] Not only dead last, but by a massive
> statistical margin of almost three standard deviations."
>