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--On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 15:53:44 -0500 John Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: Remember, Level(3) bought (at least some of) genuity/bbn.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. 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) -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [email protected] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
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