[28202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Buy tier 1 peering for only $15 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Apr 19 21:27:37 2000
Date: 19 Apr 2000 18:25:37 -0700
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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AGIS is going on the auction block. NextLink paid over a billion dollars
for a provider with essentially full peering with the major backbones, now
you too can buy peering agreements from a one-time "tier 1" provider.
According to InteractiveWeek the high bid is only US$15 million.
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2552561,00.html
Then again, maybe AGIS's anti-peering policies of a few years ago make
them a less attractive purchase.
