How about Telia or T Systems or PCCW? All of those carriers are worthy of scrutiny. Roderick S. Beck Director of EMEA Sales Hibernia Atlantic 1, Passage du Chantier, 75012 Paris http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com Wireless: 1-212-444-8829. Landline: 33-1-4346-3209 AOL Messenger: GlobalBandwidth rod.beck@hiberniaatlantic.com rodbeck@erols.com ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert Einstein. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Sargun Dhillon Sent: Mon 8/13/2007 8:01 PM To: Drew Weaver; 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Re: US transit providers with slightly better than average International connectivity? Drew Weaver wrote:

How about to this IP?

62.150.200.10

-----Original Message----- From: Sargun Dhillon [mailto:sdhillon@decarta.com] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 1:58 PM To: Drew Weaver Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Re: US transit providers with slightly better than average International connectivity?

Drew Weaver wrote:

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Howdy, I know with the trans-atlantic and trans-pacific connectivity being what it is these days that getting reliable (i.e. low latency < 200, low packet loss < 5% total round-trip) to countries such as AE and others is kind of a "shot in the dark". However, I wanted to ping the list and see if anyone has had 'better luck/worse luck' with particular transit providers. We're currently utilizing Time Warner Telecom, Level3, and Global Crossing as our transit partners and we're shopping for a fourth at this time, we would really like to find a transit provider with 'better' international presence.

Any suggestions based on experience?

Thanks,

-Drew

As a test point let's try: 212.58.224.131 That's the BBC. Posting traceroutes would be the best. Here is mine from internap: core1.t6-1-bbnet1.sje.pnap.net 0.0% 2895 2.1 21.3 1.9 1671. 101.6 xe-1-3.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net 1.7% 2895 2.1 25.7 2.0 1301. 92.6 xe-1-2.r03.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net 0.8% 2895 2.2 25.5 2.0 1764. 108.7 sjo-bb1-link.telia.net 0.0% 2895 2.3 15.3 2.1 1680. 109.5 nyk-bb1-link.telia.net 0.2% 2895 73.8 86.1 73.7 1596. 101.4 ldn-bb1-pos7-1-0.telia.net 0.0% 2895 143.1 155.5 141.8 1551. 100.4 ldn-bb1-link.telia.net ldn-bb1-link.telia.net 9. ldn-b1-pos3-0.telia.net 0.0% 2895 144.9 163.2 141.8 1470. 99.8 ldn-b1-link.telia.net 10. siemens-118436-ldn-b1.c.telia.net 0.0% 2895 144.8 165.2 141.9 1470. 106.4 11. 212.58.238.153 0.1% 2895 143.3 157.7 141.9 1386. 97.5 12. rdirwww-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk 0.1% 2895 146.3 156.0 141.8 1636. 99.4

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