North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: True Peers, Near Peers, Pseudo Peers, and Bandwidth Resellers
At 07:26 PM 7/20/97 -0700, Kent W. England wrote: >1) The True Peer Backbones are those ISPs that carry the bulk of the >Internet access traffic, run default free, and expect everyone else to buy >transit from themselves or another True Peer. Agreed. To sum it up: It seems that the general use of 'tiers' is based on who carries a network's IP traffic. .A first tier provider does not purchase transit from anyone .A second tier provider buys from a first tier .A third tier provider buys from a second tier provider and so on... generally there are a few first tiers who peer at many locations and many second tiers who are at one or two IXs and have a transit agreement, and zillions of people who buy T1s and T3s and resell.
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