[165288] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Aug 28 08:55:10 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <01bc01cea36a$0f55dfb0$2e019f10$@com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:54:42 -0400
To: "Eric Louie" <elouie@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 27, 2013, at 5:11 PM, "Eric Louie" <elouie@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tier 1 =3D Internet backbone providers (United States - AT&T, UUNET, =
Sprint,
> AboveNet/Zayo, Cogent, Qwest/CenturyLink, L3/GBLX). However, I might =
be
> better served with a Tier 2 for reachability as pointed out in another
You may want to revise your list, and look at the 3rd parties that =
measure and rank this data.
http://as-rank.caida.org/
http://www.renesys.com/2013/01/a-bakers-dozen-2012-edition/
You are missing a few networks that are important. Much of what someone =
considers a "major network" IMHO depends on how you scope them. Maybe =
you don't care about things not on your continent. Maybe you don't mind =
having a different ASN in Asia/Europe. Maybe you don't need to connect =
in Australia with the same routing policy.
The real answer is "it depends", and your criteria may not be the same =
as someone else.
- Jared
