[5848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dixon)
Mon Oct 28 12:36:31 1996
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:31:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To: Jian Li <jli@hq.si.net>
cc: jerry@fc.net, rs@bifrost.seastrom.com, azeem@dial.pipex.com, avg@quake.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610281707.MAA03608@hq.si.net>
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Jian Li wrote:
> > 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.
The point is that GSL's peering policies are radically different from
those of SprintLink, whereas Cable & Wireless seems to have the same
policies worldwide. Similarly, I know that GSL's prices for transit
used to be much higher than SprintLink's and I suppose still are.
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