[28203] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buy tier 1 peering for only $15 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Barrows)
Wed Apr 19 22:17:03 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:13:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeff Barrows <jsb@UU.NET>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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...such relationships are not always 'transferrable,'
and one should evaluate any existing contractual
agreements regarding said relationships before making
such assumptions.
- jsb
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Jeff Barrows
Director, Internetwork Engineering
UUNET, an MCI-Worldcom Company
> Date: 19 Apr 2000 18:25:37 -0700
> From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Buy tier 1 peering for only $15 million
>
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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
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> Then again, maybe AGIS's anti-peering policies of a few years ago make
> them a less attractive purchase.
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