8 Jun
2001
8 Jun
'01
11:24 a.m.
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