[2467] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Apr 6 14:14:26 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 12:10:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BB23A3.15BEFC60@jfbb.atmnet.net>
On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Jim Browning wrote:
> Perhaps there needs to be a "Global Service Provider" or "Tier/Level 0"
> designation for those with International 'backbone circuits' and routers at
> meet points in other countries??
I think we just need to recognize that there are Tier 1 providers in other
countries. Maybe we should replace the term "national" with
"broad geographic regions encompassing a signficant percentage of a
continent". Then providers like EUNet would qualify as Tier 1 providers
although, like MCI, they also provide Tier 3 ISP services.
If Sprint, MCI, ANS, Alternet/UUNET, PSI and AGIS/Net99 are the Tier 1
providers in North America, what networks would qualify as Tier 1in Europe
and the Asia-Pacific region?
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