http://www.renesys.com/products/ provide some guidance, but probably not the kind of detailed tech you want. Judging from my own experience, we have mostly been hit by limited path diversity & "everything seems fine" support in the past. -- Tassos Eric Louie wrote on 27/8/2013 22:02:
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