[165275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Smith)
Tue Aug 27 21:48:40 2013
From: Michael Smith <mksmith@mac.com>
In-reply-to: <017601cea358$00a86ad0$01f94070$@com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:48:20 -0700
To: Eric Louie <elouie@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You should also consider who exactly your customers (or you alone) want =
to reach. Are you mostly looking to connect to eyeball networks? =
Enterprise networks? Government networks? If you have some target =
networks you should do some due diligence to find out how well connected =
your various options are to the networks that mean the most to you.
If possible, I would also recommend talking to other people that are in =
your data centers, if that's possible. You might find out about hidden =
vendor-specific gremlins in that location.
Regards,
Mike
On Aug 27, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Eric Louie <elouie@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?
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> routing stability
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> BGP community offerings
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> congestion issues
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> BGP Peering relationships
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> path diversity
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> IPv6 table size
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> 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?)
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> much appreciated,
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> Eric Louie
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