Steve Kann <stevek@SteveK.COM> writes:
I have to say, that in my experience, the only company who practices full disclosure is AboveNet. Even to outsiders, they have the current capacity and usage levels of just about every single link in their network, as well as their tech announcements archive open to the public. I've seen other "pretty" network status pages from providers, but none show you the useful information you need.
INSnet (admittedly not a tier-1) has a pretty neat policy on disclosure, even including a detailed description of the fixes for problems as well as the causes of them, which is nice. See <URL:http://www1.insnet.net/> for an idea of it. M.
As is: http://www.nac.net/outages.asp which, if I could find the link, goes back to 1995... On Fri, 26 May 2000, Martin Cooper wrote:
Steve Kann <stevek@SteveK.COM> writes:
I have to say, that in my experience, the only company who practices full disclosure is AboveNet. Even to outsiders, they have the current capacity and usage levels of just about every single link in their network, as well as their tech announcements archive open to the public. I've seen other "pretty" network status pages from providers, but none show you the useful information you need.
INSnet (admittedly not a tier-1) has a pretty neat policy on disclosure, even including a detailed description of the fixes for problems as well as the causes of them, which is nice.
See <URL:http://www1.insnet.net/> for an idea of it.
M.
INSnet (admittedly not a tier-1) has a pretty neat policy on disclosure, even including a detailed description of the fixes for problems as well as the causes of them, which is nice.
See <URL:http://www1.insnet.net/> for an idea of it.
Erm, how should I say this, erm "bollocks" (TM). Since their purchase by Clueless and Witless, that went out of the window. They may claim it, they may advertise it, but an increasing number of clients and potential clients (of ours) have asked us to propose multi-homing and/or renumbering projects to them - and the commonality ? INSnet. Their sales people still claim that their core network has never failed and other such crap. I know from working with their customers (more than three shall we say) that thei attitude towards disclosure and failure is one of silence. One customer got some compensation, but this was through the 'net equivalent of the Bosman ruling (for non football fans this will be meaningless :). When your are near the end of a term contract and you get screwed for 3 days on a service you naturally consider you options... Peter
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