Time Warner Cable-Cogent Strike Interconnection Deal

Time Warner Cable says it has struck a long-term interconnection agreement with Cogent. "Cogent and Time Warner Cable have entered into a long-term, bilateral interconnection agreement for their public IP networks," the companies said. "This agreement allows the exchange of Internet traffic in a scalable and reliable manner to accommodate the growing use of the Internet."

Charter and Time Warner Cable are trying to get the Federal Communications Commission and Justice Department to approve their proposed merger and one of the issues the FCC is looking at is interconnection. Charter has pledged settlement-free interconnection, a policy that would be extended to TWC systems if the deal were approved, though a TWC spokesperson had no comment on whether the Cogent deal was such a settlement-free deal. Cogent supports the merger, citing Charter's settlement-free peering policy, as does another major peering player, Netflix.