[38602] in North American Network Operators' Group
more tier 1 definitions was: Why so little traffic from C&W
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (scott w)
Fri Jun 8 02:46:42 2001
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 06:45:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: scott w <scott@digisle.net>
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On a bright Hawaiian full-moon night some folks wrote:
> > Breaking down? It used to be that anyone connected directly
> > to an exchange point was tier one, and the tiers are pretty
> > obvious beyond that. Now that everyone's at the exchanges,
> > "tier one" is simply a marketing term.
>
> I believe the latest common definition of tier 1 in that of an ISP with no
> transit.
When we started we had a nontransit, 2 cisco 7206, IP only, star topology
(with arms to 5 international POPs), one customer network. Is this now
being defined as tier 1 since we were doing nontransit only?
scott
