[11090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: True Peers, Near Peers, Pseudo Peers, and Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Nayfield)
Mon Jul 21 12:09:23 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:58:28 -0400
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
From: Rod Nayfield <rod@iconnet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970720192649.006da3d4@zeus.geo.net>
At 07:26 PM 7/20/97 -0700, Kent W. England wrote:
>1) The True Peer Backbones are those ISPs that carry the bulk of the
>Internet access traffic, run default free, and expect everyone else to buy
>transit from themselves or another True Peer.
Agreed. To sum it up:
It seems that the general use of 'tiers' is based on who carries a
network's IP traffic.
.A first tier provider does not purchase transit from anyone
.A second tier provider buys from a first tier
.A third tier provider buys from a second tier provider and so on...
generally there are a few first tiers who peer at many locations and many
second tiers who are at one or two IXs and have a transit agreement, and
zillions of people who buy T1s and T3s and resell.
