[5847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jian Li)
Mon Oct 28 12:15:34 1996
From: Jian Li <jli@hq.si.net>
To: jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:07:06 -0500 (EST)
Cc: jerry@fc.net, rs@bifrost.seastrom.com, azeem@dial.pipex.com, avg@quake.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961026230129.25371J-100000@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net> from "Jim Dixon" at Oct 26, 96 11:08:27 pm
>
> Yes it is already changing. But as far as I can see, Global
> SprintLink represents the old US-centric model: GSL is the
> international arm of SprintLink and essentially sells bandwidth
> into the States. C&W is setting itself up as a global backbone
> provider.
GSL offers both IPL and POP accesses, and participates local-exchange
within country/reginal POPs. US-centric model is juct matter of economy
and tariff between countries. If someone is willing to pay more to run a DS-3
from Taiwan to Japan instead, I am sure there is no reason for GSL to reject
the order.
- jian
