InterNAP has done the tier-0 marketing dance for some time. Quite successfully, as a matter of fact. Secret Sauce sells like hotcakes. Wall Street likes it as well. Not much of a performance increase, though. - Daniel Golding
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Majdi S. Abbas Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:09 PM To: Alex Bligh Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Network for Sale
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:51:30PM +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
If you refuse to peer with anyone at all, you can be tier-0. This can be achieved with considerable savings to phone line utilization.
Actually, we already have a tier-0. See:
http://www.opnix.net/perl/PressRelease.cgi?article=100032
(And many other things on their website.)
Particularly amusing is:
http://www.opnix.net/whatwedo/performance.shtml
--msa