[38861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Facinelli)
Tue Jun 19 17:50:11 2001
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:49:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin Facinelli <ksfacinelli@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ksfacinelli@yahoo.com
To: Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106182032510.24611-100000@impatience.valueclick.com>
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You may want to take a look at the resource
www.colosource.com they have an online free directory
of over 500 different colocation providers organized
by state and area-code.
Just an Idea..............
--- Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We're looking around for a new colocation provider
> for aroudn
> ~100Mbit traffic. (Not much for the average NANOG
> participant I'm
> sure, but that's what we've got ... :-) )
>
> Level3 are giving us a pretty good quote; and all
> their competitors'
> sales bozos ramble on about how they're "second
> tier" and bla bla
> bla.
>
> What's the (technical) truth? Does Level3 have
> decent connectivity
> (primarily from their colos in the Bay Area and Los
> Angeles). From
> what traceroutes and such I can do it looks just
> fine and Yahoo
> wouldn't be using them if they sucked that badly,
> huh?
>
> Any gotchas we should be aware of about Level3?
>
> FWIW, the other facilities we're looking at are
> Digital Island and
> Exodus.
>
> Any others that would be recommended?
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated. If you
> answer offlist then
> I can summarize later in the week. (Without your
> name if you'd
> prefer that).
>
>
> - ask
>
> --
> ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try;
> do();
>
=====
Kevin Facinelli
www.colosource.com
webmaster@colosource.com
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