[85324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Fri Oct 7 13:41:08 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:37:40 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Cc: Patrick Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BF6C0D20.11B17%dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Daniel Golding wrote:
> Take-away: Do not single home. I'm shocked folks aren't figuring this out.
> If you are a webhoster or enterprise and your business model can not support
> multiple Internet pipes, than you have a suboptimal business model (to put
> it lightly)
Or "single-home" to a tier-2 -- or tier-1.5, or whatever you want to call it
in marketing newspeak -- that provides multihoming of their own networks,
and get a netblock from their space.
Often, that can be more cost effective (even these depeering situations
notwithstanding) than single-homing to a tier-1.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
