North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
I spoke to a sprint salesperson about 2 weeks ago and was told that I could not get any kind of BGP4 peering with Sprint unless I had a Cisco 7000 series router. > > Jon Green writes: > >Hi folks- > > > >I have a problem that I need some advice on, and figured this was a good place > >to turn. We are attempting to connect a T1 to Sprint in order to multi-home > >our network. Currently we are connected to multiple points on MCI's backbone, > >and have just installed a T1 to UUnet. We heard back from Sprint today.. > >they are rejecting us as a customer because we do not use Cisco routers. > >Apparently they feel that Bay Networks routers are not capable of routing > >Internet traffic, ignoring the fact that they already peer with ANS and > >several other providers using Bay routers. > > You are actually getting some misinformation. You can use any router > you want, we just can't help you configure things other than Cisco > routers. If you want us to manage your router, then it must be a > Cisco, otherwise use whatever you want. > > >Any suggestions welcome. Anyone from Sprint who'd like to comment, please > >do so. > > Tell your Sprint sales folks that I said it was fine and approve the > SCA. If they have any questions, have them call me. > > -Hank Kilmer > Mgr Sprint IP OPS Engineering > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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