North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical [OT] RE: a question about the economics of peering
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Hitesh Patel wrote: > > > There is also an important reason to be connected at several exchange > points: reliability. If you just have one transit provider, you're more > vulnerable than with one transit provider plus a variety of peerings, which > will still carry at least part of the traffic if the main provider fails. > Under some definitions a transit free [IN]SP is Tier-1 - so you can tell your customers you have a Tier one as your fall-back - right ? ( ;-) > > -- Rafi
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