8 Jun
2001
8 Jun
'01
2:45 a.m.
On a bright Hawaiian full-moon night some folks 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.
I believe the latest common definition of tier 1 in that of an ISP with no transit.
When we started we had a nontransit, 2 cisco 7206, IP only, star topology (with arms to 5 international POPs), one customer network. Is this now being defined as tier 1 since we were doing nontransit only? scott