[61631] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Sun Aug 31 20:41:10 2003
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:40:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Daniel Golding <dgold@FDFNet.Net>
To: Sean Crandall <sean@megapath.net>
Cc: "'Rick Ernst'" <erond@legendz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7890E58494115C4C8D864A0E1211D5AA07132393@ALPINE>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Level(3) is generally very good. Great engineering team and very reliable.
I'm not sure if their pricing will maintain their business model in the
long run, but I certainly hope so.
- Daniel Golding
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Sean Crandall wrote:
>
> > 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)
>
>
>
