Maybe level 3 have more vocal or higher profile customer base? Personally speaking I've found level 3 to have outstanding service and network availibility.

Neil.

From: Security Admin (NetSec) <secadmin@netsecdesign.com>
Sent: 12 July 2007 06:56
To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>
Subject: Level(3) faux paux

I have noticed that Level(3) misconfigs/outages seem to happen more frequently than with most other Tier 1’s.  Am unsure whether or not this is a mis-statement, but based on NANOG posts, Level(3) [AS3356] seems to show up more often with issues than say Sprint [AS1239].  Is their any one (or any coporation) that keeps track of outages such as these?  Would think it might be a good thing to know for proper mulit-homing relationships to minimize the type of outage that Yahoo faced…

 

SecAdmin (aka Edward Ray)