[52848] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sprint VS. Qwest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Borchers)
Fri Oct 18 17:57:29 2002
From: "Mark Borchers" <mborchers@igillc.com>
To: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
"dgold" <dgold@FDFNet.Net>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
"Christopher K. Neitzert" <chris@neitzert.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:56:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20021018214406.GP26000@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
OK, given the choice between tier 1 "A" and tier 1 "B",
suppose you can show that interconnect bandwidth between
the two is underprovisioned. Armed with that knowledge,
which of the two do you choose as your transit provider?
> -----Original Message-----
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:18:47PM -0500, dgold wrote:
> >
> > Both Sprint and Qwest are, most would agree, transit-free, "tier 1"
> > networks. They interconnect with all other similarly large networks. How
> > much more do you want? The size of their interconnections to
> 701? I'm not
> > sure how that is useful.
>
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/sjc/sjc-sprint-oc3.html
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/iad/iad-sprint-oc3.html
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/chi/chi-sprint.html
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/nyc/nyc-sprint.html
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/lax/lax-sprint.html
>
> 'cause yeah, no "tier 1" has ever run congested to another, right?
>
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