On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:24:25AM -0400, RJ Atkinson wrote:
At 17:43 07/06/01, J.D. Falk wrote:
Breaking down? It used to be that anyone connected directly to an exchange point was tier one, and the tiers are pretty obvious beyond that. Now that everyone's at the exchanges, "tier one" is simply a marketing term.
Curious. I've never heard that definition of Tier-1 before. The common definition is "doesn't pay any other ISP to exchange routes and traffic", or so I've thought for the past decade.
Ran
If you have an ISP which is diversely connected to all other(?) tier-1 providers, and has a peering relationship such that the other tier-1s only announce the ISP's routes to their customers, then it would seem the ISP is from a technical standpoint a tier-1 provider. IMO as an engineer and not a marketeer, who pays who should not have bearing on that definition, though I agree that the "doesn't pay" definition is the one I am familiar with. Austin