[34784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Delicious Network for Sale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Mon Feb 19 16:38:39 2001
From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: "Daniel Golding" <dan@netrail.net>
Cc: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>,
"Alex Bligh" <amb@gxn.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:19:55 EST."
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:33:58 +0000
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> InterNAP has done the tier-0 marketing dance
So if I buy transit from players like Internap / Opnix & implement
a similar system, am I tier-1, tier--1, or the victim of meaningless
marketing hype?
I'm sure both companies have fabulous and wonderful technologies,
however in today's world of democratized terminology, seems to me
anyone can be any tier they want to be (man). 'Tier 1' is now
about as useful as the those restaurant menu descriptions which
helpfully describe the dish in question with an equally otiose
'delicious'.
--
Alex Bligh
Senior Technology Officer, Europe
XO Communications - http://www.xo.com/
(formerly Nextlink Inc, Concentric Network Corporation
GX Networks, Xara Networks)
