[OT] RE: a question about the economics of peering

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Hitesh Patel wrote:

There is also an important reason to be connected at several exchange points: reliability. If you just have one transit provider, you're more vulnerable than with one transit provider plus a variety of peerings, which will still carry at least part of the traffic if the main provider fails.

Under some definitions a transit free [IN]SP is Tier-1 - so you can tell your customers you have a Tier one as your fall-back - right ? ( ;-)

-- Rafi