[165254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Louie)
Tue Aug 27 15:02:57 2013
From: "Eric Louie" <elouie@yahoo.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:02:39 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few
criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria -
what would you add to this list? And how would I get a quantitative or
qualitative measure of it?
routing stability
BGP community offerings
congestion issues
BGP Peering relationships
path diversity
IPv6 table size
Seems like everyone offers 5 9's service, 45 ms coast-to-coast, 24x7
customer support, 100/1Gbps/10Gbps with various DIR/CIR and burst rates.
I'm shopping for new service and want to do better than choosing on
reputation. (or, is reputation also a criteria?)
much appreciated,
Eric Louie
