[39953] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Broadwing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Nielsen)
Fri Jul 27 16:00:01 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>
To: Karyn Ulriksen <valkaryn@valkaryn.net>
Cc: "Hansel E. Lee Jr." <hansel.lee@corp.winfirst.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> 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.
what does Tier1 have to do with anything? it JUST might be a good thing to
be able to have a default route to another player if things start
breaking. the other providers are good, but i dont think tier1,2,3 matter
anymore. what should matter is how they are connected and if they will
have latency on any of their links or links to other players.
Christian
