[61299] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tier-1 without their own backbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Rosenman)
Wed Aug 27 17:05:12 2003
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:00:35 -0500
From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: John Palmer <nanog@adns.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <011401c36cdd$654a3480$8919d797@JPALMERWIN2K>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 15:53:44 -0500 John Palmer <nanog@adns.net>
wrote:
>
> I hear that Level 3 is good but do they handle small stuff like T-1?
> We may be looking to dual-home soon and will be looking around.
Remember, Level(3) bought (at least some of) genuity/bbn.
I was always impressed with the genuity folks. We just switched a DS3 to
the
AS3356 backbone from AS1 on Monday. Smoothest turn up I've ever had.
LER
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Crandall" <sean@megapath.net>
> To: "'Rick Ernst'" <erond@legendz.com>; <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 15:48
> Subject: RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?
>
>
>>
>> > 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... :)
>>
>> I have about 5 GB of IP transit connections from Level3 across 8 markets
>> (plus using their facilities for our backbone). Level3 has been very
>> solid on the IP transit side.
>>
>> MFN/AboveNet has also been very good to us.
>>
>> -Sean
>>
>> Sean P. Crandall
>> VP Engineering Operations
>> MegaPath Networks Inc.
>> 6691 Owens Drive
>> Pleasanton, CA 94588
>> (925) 201-2530 (office)
>> (925) 201-2550 (fax)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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