[114833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Savvis quality?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed May 27 15:55:58 2009
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:55:06 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <620fd17c0905271153k2f924225yefbfae23f1826abb@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Paul Wall wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:35 PM, David Hubbard
> <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:
>> Just wondering if anyone can tell me their
>> opinion on Savvis bandwidth/company preferably
>> from a web host perspective. Considering a
>> connection.
>
> They might be a good provider for reaching Comcast (when they're not
> advertising inconsistently), but so are Level3 and Global Crossing.
>
> I hear they've got some pretty serious peering problems in the US.
>
I got an offlist to my response asking about their peering issues. I
said I couldn't comment because I haven't personally experienced any
problems. If anything, I rerouted traffic through SAVVIS heavily during
the Sprint/Cogent peering thing since one of my upstreams is Sprint.
~Seth