[90151] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tier 2 - Lease?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Wed May 3 10:07:40 2006
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 10:06:52 -0400
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Robert Sherrard <rob@robsherrard.com>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060503055837.GL46039@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 01:58 AM 5/3/2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:38:22PM -0700, Robert Sherrard wrote:
> >
> > What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
> >
> > Is it possible to determine who a tier 2 (i.e. Cogent) leases fiber from?
>
>It has absolutely nothing to do with fiber.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_carrier
>
>As of this exact moment that I'm posting, that article is actually
>reasonably accurate. Of course I'm sure in 5 minutes 100 people will be
>updating it to include their favorite not-really-a-tier-1 carrier. :)
Someone added Cogent as a Tier 1, and there are others missing so I'd
ignore the "who" is a tier 1 portion.
-M<
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