[61288] in North American Network Operators' Group
Tier-1 without their own backbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Ernst)
Wed Aug 27 15:33:25 2003
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:32:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Ernst <erond@legendz.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We are sending out feelers for adding an additional DS-3, or possibly frac
OC-3. One of the responses came back with "we won't be competive with
<provider> because they don't have their own backbone.
Is there a cross-reference for provider vs network backbone, or is this just
something that we have to ask each provider for? I "assume" that UU, Sprint,
and AT&T are self-owned backbones, but others... ?
One of the providers we are looking at is Level-3. Any comments good/bad on
reliability and clue? We already have UU, Sprint, and AT&T. I also realize
that the "they suck less" list changes continuously... :)
Thanks,
Rick
