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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1)
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:46:05AM -0400, Travis Pugh wrote: > > The part that really drives me crazy is that nobody seems to have > played the "tier 2 and proud" card from a marketing standpoint. I can > think of a few reasons why I'd rather not be transit free right now, > and could probably successfully pitch those reasons to customers if I > wanted to change careers. InterNAP. Personally I think the whole "tier 1" craze is overrated. I'd rather have multiple good paths to my destination, and the ability to divert traffic elsewhere in the event of a problem. It can cost a lot of time and money to get all the peering you need in all locations (or at least enough to keep from bouncing traffic across the country because thats where your peer is, or thats where your private peer is, etc). Then again it does solve the problem of path selection by making it a non-issue, there is only one path. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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