[39004] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Eliminate Dependency on Telefonica in Brazil?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Mon Jun 25 10:41:05 2001
In-Reply-To: <B481990C9658D411BD3C009027D6F54401ACD750@ca-exchange3.nai.com> from "Murphy, Brennan" at "Jun 25, 2001 07:15:59 am"
To: Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com (Murphy Brennan)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:43:34 +0100 (BST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu ('nanog@merit.edu')
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From: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae)
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Try Metrored, www.metrored.com. They are a company not too different
from COLT.
Regards,
Neil.
>
> Consider the following *hypothetical*:
>
> Company X comes to believe that one of the best things it could do to
> achieve reliability
> on its circuits in Brazil is to reduce or eliminate its dependency on
> Telefonica
> for "last mile" support/provisioning. Are there any options available to
> such
> a Company? If so, which might be best: microwave, satellite, cellular, etc?
> Which vendors
> might be investigated and considered for these services? Any difference
> between
> VPN and point to point circuits? If you were goign to build a large scale
> web presence
> in Brazil...what's your top list of possible circuit providers? Reliability
> is valued
> over cost. I guess to put the query in nanog mailing list terms.....who
> could I go
> with to ensure I'm a good BGP neighbor in Brazil?
>
> I know some may find the above humorous since if you insert Verizon,
> BellSouth,
> etc in place of Telefonica...the hypothetical may not change much. :-) No
> offense
> to the Bells...when I pick up the phone 99.999% of the time I have dial
> tone--which I
> appreciate. :-) But it costs $$$...
>
> Thanks!
>
