Tuesday, February 3, 2009

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Finally, in 2006, the two companies broke the deadlock--or so it seemed. Sprint agreed to connect its network to Cogent's for a 90-day paid trial. If Internet traffic flowed back and forth between Sprint customers and Cogent customers in large volumes and in roughly equal proportions, then Sprint would agree to a permanent no-cost traffic now flowed directly. It is just these sorts of connections that let the global Internet grow ever faster and more reliable.
A few days after the trial period ended in late September 2007, Sprint told Cogent it had failed the test. David Schaeffer, Cogent's pugnacious chief executive, says he was stunned. The two networks had transferred equal amounts swap. The companies signed a contract on Sept. 19, 2006, laying out the terms of the deal.By June 2007, Cogent and Sprint had established high-capacity links in six cities in the U.S. and in four more around the globe. With the connections open, traffic that had been forced to use a third network to travel between Cogent and Sprint

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