Here's what I've "heard" about Sprint and peering... Sprint's minimum to peer is 6 x OC-12's. To peer with them, you have to undergo a 90-day trial period. At the end of the 90 days, they will determine whether or not they would like to peer with you. Here's the catch: During the 90-day trial period, there is a NON-REFUNDABLE $125k/port fee (for each OC-12). So, you're looking at laying out $750k per month for 3 months, or $2.25 MILLION over the 90-day "trial" period, and even then, they MIGHT peer with you. But that's just what I've "heard". On a side note: Folks should keep an eye on Allegiance Internet (the folks I work for). They picked up the old Digex / Intermedia Business Internet backbone and are in the process of integrating it (under AS2548). Financially solid company, very easy to work with, and have some strong uptimes. (Plan on seeing an SLA of 99.999%/99.75%/65ms with a guaranteed 15 minute response time for loss of connectivity to customer prem and a guaranteed 40 business day install). For peering, I'm pretty sure the policy is Tier 1 = 4 points OC-3 or better, Tier 2 = 4 points DS-3 or better (Tier 2 peer pays loop charge if applicable). Thanks, Dan Dan Mitchell Internet Systems Engineer - Boston AllegianceInternet / Hosting.com 781.478.1857 Direct Line dan.mitchell@hosting.com -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Nelson [mailto:jnelson@rackspace.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:04 PM To: Majdi S. Abbas; Ralph Doncaster Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Sprint peering policy http://www.sprintlink.net/policy/index.html --what they publish $$$$$--what they don't jeff "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." --Jon Postel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com> To: "Ralph Doncaster" <ralph@istop.com> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Sprint peering policy
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:39:11PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
While many other tier-1's have publicly listed their peering policies, I've never seen anything for 1239. Not that I'd stand a chance, but
does
anyone know what their peering requirements are?
sprintlink.net# grep peering /etc/aliases peering: /dev/null sprintlink.net#
--msa
But that's just what I've "heard".
On a side note: Folks should keep an eye on Allegiance Internet (the folks I work for). They picked up the old Digex / Intermedia Business Internet backbone and are in the process of integrating it (under AS2548). Financially solid company, very easy to work with, and have some strong uptimes.
On what basis do you claim that Allegiance Internet is going to be in business by end of the summer? Alex
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:07:53 EDT, alex@yuriev.com said:
On what basis do you claim that Allegiance Internet is going to be in business by end of the summer?
The cynic in me started to say "less indictments against upper management than their competitors". but then I realized that there may be more shoes waiting to drop...
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Mitchell, Dan wrote:
On a side note: Folks should keep an eye on Allegiance Internet (the folks I work for). They picked up the old Digex / Intermedia Business Internet backbone and are in the process of integrating it (under AS2548). Financially solid company, very easy to work with, and have some strong uptimes. (Plan on seeing an SLA of 99.999%/99.75%/65ms with a guaranteed 15 minute response time for loss of connectivity to customer prem and a guaranteed 40 business day install). For peering, I'm pretty sure the policy is Tier 1 = 4 points OC-3 or better, Tier 2 = 4 points DS-3 or better (Tier 2 peer pays loop charge if applicable).
On what basis do you claim that Allegiance Internet is going to have any external connectivity to speak of by the end of the day? So far ALGX has spent the entire weekend leaking a full table to anyone that would listen at MAE-West, and occaisionally MAE-East as well. I spent 90 minutes in the queue to inform your NOC of this problem, and 3 hours later, the only change in this situation is that you are now leaking a full table at MAE-East again. I've spoken to several other people that peer with 2548, and they've been seeing the same thing. I have been told that quite a few people have called or emailed your NOC about this issue, for the past two days. Since you work for ALGX, do you think you could find someone who can correctly update a route-map? Thanks! Incidentally, you may wish to revise your SLA figures in light of this 2+ day incident. --msa
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