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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:24:25AM -0400, RJ Atkinson wrote: > > At 17:43 07/06/01, J.D. Falk 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. > > Curious. I've never heard that definition of Tier-1 before. > The common definition is "doesn't pay any other ISP to exchange routes > and traffic", or so I've thought for the past decade. > > Ran If you have an ISP which is diversely connected to all other(?) tier-1 providers, and has a peering relationship such that the other tier-1s only announce the ISP's routes to their customers, then it would seem the ISP is from a technical standpoint a tier-1 provider. IMO as an engineer and not a marketeer, who pays who should not have bearing on that definition, though I agree that the "doesn't pay" definition is the one I am familiar with. Austin
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