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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Sprint VS. Qwest
OK, given the choice between tier 1 "A" and tier 1 "B", suppose you can show that interconnect bandwidth between the two is underprovisioned. Armed with that knowledge, which of the two do you choose as your transit provider? > -----Original Message----- > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:18:47PM -0500, dgold wrote: > > > > Both Sprint and Qwest are, most would agree, transit-free, "tier 1" > > networks. They interconnect with all other similarly large networks. How > > much more do you want? The size of their interconnections to > 701? I'm not > > sure how that is useful. > > http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/sjc/sjc-sprint-oc3.html > http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/iad/iad-sprint-oc3.html > http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/chi/chi-sprint.html > http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/nyc/nyc-sprint.html > http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/lax/lax-sprint.html > > 'cause yeah, no "tier 1" has ever run congested to another, right? > > -- > 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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