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  • From: Daniel
  • Date: Mon Jul 16 17:40:39 2007
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All,

I am currently in the process of evaluating carriers for future expansion into international regions, primarily Asia, Europe and South America.

I am comfortable with AT&T and Verizon however I would like to make sure I include all the major players and would like your direct feedback and commentary in regards to any of them.

These are the key areas I am concerned with.

Support
Reliability
Flexibility
Complexity
Coverage

I am looking at two deployment options as well if anyone would like to comment.

1) A single carrier for global connectivity to all sites (mpls etc)

2) A single carrier for global regional connectivity, and in country/regional carriers for all local offices that funnel back to regional aggregation points.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Daniel