On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:23:11AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: [snip]
Has everyone forgotten the "Tier 1 depeerings" of several years ago? i.e. If you were pointing default at C&W, PSINet, Cogent, or Level3 when they each had or caused depeering issues, parts of the internet ceased to be reachable. In such cases, having full routes from multiple providers was the only way to be automatically protected from such games.
The triumph of marketing in the so-called tier-1s is just sad. The continued success of them reflects the lack of... oh wait, didn't 3561 change hands a lot? And didn't supposedly inferior edge networks pick up 701, 7018, 174 .... Perhaps having marketing dictate a fragile network strategy isn't in the best business interest after all. -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE