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Re: Tier-1 without their own backbone?

  • From: Larry Rosenman
  • Date: Wed Aug 27 17:06:54 2003




--On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 15:53:44 -0500 John Palmer <[email protected]> wrote:

I hear that Level 3 is good but do they handle small stuff like T-1?
We may be looking to dual-home soon and will be looking around.
Remember, Level(3) bought (at least some of) genuity/bbn.

I was always impressed with the genuity folks. We just switched a DS3 to the
AS3356 backbone from AS1 on Monday. Smoothest turn up I've ever had.

LER

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Crandall" <[email protected]>
To: "'Rick Ernst'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 15:48
Subject: RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?


> One of the providers we are looking at is Level-3.  Any
> comments good/bad on
> reliability and clue?  We already have UU, Sprint, and AT&T.
> I also realize
> that the "they suck less" list changes continuously... :)

I have about 5 GB of IP transit connections from Level3 across 8 markets
(plus using their facilities for our backbone).  Level3 has been very
solid on the IP transit side.

MFN/AboveNet has also been very good to us.

-Sean

Sean P. Crandall
VP Engineering Operations
MegaPath Networks Inc.
6691 Owens Drive
Pleasanton, CA  94588
(925) 201-2530 (office)
(925) 201-2550 (fax)






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