If this was previously mentioned, my apologies. The time they can respond to a PNI upgrade. If you have an existing 10G and wish to add another. Can this be provisioned off the same device to form a LAG or can they only provide ECMP. May not be something you can evaluate at contract signing, but it can quickly become an issue when you need it. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Eric Louie <elouie@yahoo.com> wrote:
Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria - what would you add to this list? And how would I get a quantitative or qualitative measure of it?
routing stability
BGP community offerings
congestion issues
BGP Peering relationships
path diversity
IPv6 table size
Seems like everyone offers 5 9's service, 45 ms coast-to-coast, 24x7 customer support, 100/1Gbps/10Gbps with various DIR/CIR and burst rates. I'm shopping for new service and want to do better than choosing on reputation. (or, is reputation also a criteria?)
much appreciated,
Eric Louie
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