[39949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Relative ISP size (was Broadwing)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Fri Jul 27 13:51:00 2001
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:50:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: valkaryn@valkaryn.net, hansel.lee@corp.winfirst.com
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Quoth Karyn:
>Just remember that Broadwing is not actually a Tier 1
>provider. They are a
>Tier 2 striving to become a Tier 1. When I was
>looking at them, I found
>that you could obtain just as good or better pricing
>from an actual Tier 1
>provider. Check out Exodus, Verio, and Genuity.
Last >I checked they were
>offering some seriously competitive pricing on OCs.
I just thought your list of Tier 1 providers was
interesting - that gets back to the (very) old
argument about exactly what "Tier-1" means, and that
tends to be a religious argument for many. I like the
Skitter approach myself - www.caida.org - if they're
in red or yellow, they're Tier 1, if purple, tier 2...
David Barak
"Quis custodes ipsos custodiet?" - Juvenal
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