Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider

I have a suggestion;

Take the BB-cost of the foreign provider, include the trans- oceanic link, add this to the BB-cost of the US peer and divide the sum equally.

--Peter

To which I have my standard response to you, Peter :) The unfortunate reality is that most US customers wouldn't notice or care of connectivity to Europe went into the crapper. This does NOT mean that we don't have to think about these issues - but since it's cheaper for many Eurpean backbones to connect to each other by coming to the US anyway, I really don't see most US providers stretching hard over either ocean any time soon. Avi