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On a bright Hawaiian full-moon night some folks wrote: > > Breaking down? It used to be that anyone connected directly > > to an exchange point was tier one, and the tiers are pretty > > obvious beyond that. Now that everyone's at the exchanges, > > "tier one" is simply a marketing term. > > I believe the latest common definition of tier 1 in that of an ISP with no > transit. When we started we had a nontransit, 2 cisco 7206, IP only, star topology (with arms to 5 international POPs), one customer network. Is this now being defined as tier 1 since we were doing nontransit only? scott
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