Some points I have not seen so far are: - how do you connect? local cc in the dc or several other fiber runs to reach a different dc/city? (affects price, setup time, maintenance and debugging) - where is your traffic going to/from? how many intermediate ASs or long transfers are involved? - bgp community support to influence routing (including the already mentioned blackhole) - flowspec support - additional services like ddos mitigation - how many ports/locations per committed bandwidth - your own experience with the company (sales/support) - I assume IPv6 support does not need to be mentioned anymore :) Karsten Am Fr., 14. Dez. 2018 um 16:24 Uhr schrieb Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>:
Hello there,
I have started writing a blog which I hope it would help buy transit services from providers by doing various due diligences(technical) i wanted to reach out and ask nanog community’s thoughts on this.
What are some of your checklist items ? Price? Their directly peered networks? If they are tier 2,3 who they use as tier 1-2? Are the onnet? I am sure list goes on and on on...
Thanks a lot for your help. I plan to write the blog this month and publish.
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