OK, given the choice between tier 1 "A" and tier 1 "B", suppose you can show that interconnect bandwidth between the two is underprovisioned. Armed with that knowledge, which of the two do you choose as your transit provider?
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:18:47PM -0500, dgold wrote:
Both Sprint and Qwest are, most would agree, transit-free, "tier 1" networks. They interconnect with all other similarly large networks. How much more do you want? The size of their interconnections to
701? I'm not
sure how that is useful.
http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/sjc/sjc-sprint-oc3.html http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/iad/iad-sprint-oc3.html http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/chi/chi-sprint.html http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/nyc/nyc-sprint.html http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/lax/lax-sprint.html
'cause yeah, no "tier 1" has ever run congested to another, right?
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