[28278] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Table Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Mon Apr 24 05:10:59 2000
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From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:05:05 +0100
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> They detailed private and public peering (see their tables). They did it
> using MIDS which did 1.2 million traceroutes from various beacons located
> thruout the Internet.
>
> Very easy to determine who is a tier-1 and tier-2 ISP.
I still do not understand what this pseudo-marketing distinction is. May I
conjecture, in the light of the current discussion, that a "tier 1" ISP is
one which makes a net profit from "peering" and a "tier 2" is one that does
not ? Or is it that a "tier 2" ISP has real customers ?
Peter
