Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications - Interweb is doomed

[Jeff Waddell <jeff+nanog () waddellsolutions com>]

We were on on 4323 - we are still peered to 4323 (from a config stand
point) - but the world sees us thru 3549

It is a mess on convergence

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 3:24 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:

> On 10/28/16 12:18 PM, Mel Beckman wrote:
> > Level3 hasn't even finished migrating its TWTelecom customers to the L3
> AS yes, and it's been years. So I don't think you can expect any faster
> transition for CL.
> 3549 still exists...
> >  -mel beckman
> >
> > > On Oct 28, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Timothy Lister <incudie () gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > So if this went through, how would it happen? Does 3356 (L3) absorb
> 209's
> > > (CL) infrastructure and slowly make customers change their peering
> config
> > > to hit 3356 instead?
> > >
> > > You make a good point, I have at least a couple clients that peer to
> both
> > > providers for redundancy. One of which just recently signed an agreement
> > > with CenturyLink for the sole purpose of fail over.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications -
> > > Interweb is doomed
> > > From: Jima <nanog () jima us>
> > > To: <nanog () nanog org>
> > > > > > On 10/27/2016 12:36, Nevin Gonsalves via NANOG wrote:
> > > > > > :-)
> > > http://www.wsj.com/articles/centurylink-in-advanced-talks-
> to-merge-with-level-3-communications-1477589011
> > > This is great! Except for all of their mutual customers who had circuits
> > > from both for redundancy. (See also: Level 3's and TWTC's mutual
> > > customers, and probably a long list of other M&A I'm not thinking of
> > > off-hand.)
> > >
> > > OK, I lied about it being great anyway.
> > >
> > >      Jima
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications -
> > > Interweb is doomed
> > > From: Jima <nanog () jima us>
> > > To: <nanog () nanog org>