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Re: XO as Backbone provider - try again

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Wed Aug 20 21:47:49 2003

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:37:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
Cc: "Nanog (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <51281EBD0902504288C3CD5590AE06BED4F02E@intranet1.ins.jersey.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Sorry for the HTML post (boo, hiss)
> 
> Anyone have positive or negative experiences with XO as a 'tier1'
> provider? We are re-evaluating orur backbone connections.

Consensus opinion of friends and associates:

OK network, but they will take forever and a day to install anything at
all.

Example: a rack + handoff -in their colo- is 55 days and counting.

-alex


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