On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Alex Bligh wrote:
So if I buy transit from players like Internap / Opnix & implement a similar system, am I tier-1, tier--1, or the victim of meaningless marketing hype?
The "Tier-n" argument is never-ending. I think the bottom-line is that (no offense) marketing people like it, engineers hate it. :) When discussing Opnix, I won't use the "Tier-0" stuff. I prefer to just stick with discussing our Internet/route intelligence technologies -- not basic network architecture. In the end, given all the "Tier-n" hype (good word, BTW), its probably best to just ignore any sentence with the word "tier" in it and read the rest. :) -- ~Jay .. .. .. Jay Jacobson Chief Executive Officer .. .. Opnix, Inc. http://opnix.com .. .. .. .. Innovating Internet Intelligence .. .. ..