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
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Rod Nayfield wrote: > 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 Purchase, or exchange. I.E. I was getting some transit from a customer, but I did not pay for it. So to be a first tier your routes must only be announced by you, and no other AS. I am not sure if CIX should count or not. Netrail was using CIX to get to 1 provider that was not peering, we now have peering with them, and are going to kill our CIX connection. I am not sure if this should count as being a tier one or not. It soon will not be a issue because MCI, UUNET, ANS, Sprint, Netrail and others are pulling from CIX. > .A second tier provider buys from a first tier Yes, but they also may have NAP connection, and may even have a nationwide backbone. There are many second tier providers who have nationwide DS3 networks, and peer at many naps, but still have a small amount of transit to get to places they can't get peering setup with. Most of them want to be first tier, but should not be counted. > .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. Nathan Stratton President, NetRail,Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phone (888)NetRail NetRail, Inc. Fax (404)522-1939 230 Peachtree Suite 500 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Atlanta, GA 30303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. - Psalm 33:16
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