I think you are making an argument by definition. No "hosting" company has a global optical backbone, because if it had a global optical backbone its not a hosting company. No tier 1 provider buys transit, because if it bought transit it wouldn't be a tier 1 provider. On Sat, 17 June 2000, Paul Vixie wrote:
sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan) writes:
I don't understand your distinction. Several companies sell both hosting services and network services. GlobalCenter/Crossing, Genuity/BBN and Worldcom/UUNET have large "global" optical networks and hosting divisions.
Those companies also sell circuit-based services, i.e., services that do not require hosting in order to accept delivery of them. Genuity's home page mentions DSL, for example. These are fine companies, with fine networks, but they are not "hosting" companies any more than making tanks in WW2 made Chrysler into a weapons company or making keyboards and mice makes Microsoft a hardware company. If it's just one thing they do, then it doesn't make sense to label the company by it.