[100684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Least Sucky Backbone Provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Boehnlein)
Mon Nov 5 10:53:35 2007
From: "Gregory Boehnlein" <damin@nacs.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:51:58 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Good morning,
I'm considering dropping Cogent completely out of my transit mix, as
the number of outages and problems they have been experienced over the past
year has reached an unacceptable level. It has gotten to the point that we
their BGP session is shutdown for longer periods than it is on. Based on the
availability of on-net fiber in my facility, I have narrowed the field to
the following candidates:
1. Level 3
2. MCI/Verizon
3. AT&T
I'm looking for comments from actual customers of the above providers in
relation to;
1. Network reliability and performance
2. Responsiveness to outages
3. Proactive notification of network maintenance
95% of our traffic mix is US48 in nature, so International routes are not a
huge decision point.
