Nick, Savvis was first by a very long time. As I understand it, they cooled to the idea after a while. InterNAP came later, and executed (at least marketing and sales-wise), much better. Regardless of the hype, there's a big difference between a PNAP/POP from one of these guys, and what is conventionally thought of as a NAP. - Daniel Golding On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Kampeas, Nick (EPIK.ORL) wrote:

Now that you brought up that point, let me interject with two question. What is the difference between Internap and Savvis (short of the names and financial status)? Who came up with the minnaps first?

Nick Kampeas

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Golding [mailto:dan@netrail.net] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:20 PM To: Majdi S. Abbas; Alex Bligh Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Network for Sale

InterNAP has done the tier-0 marketing dance for some time. Quite successfully, as a matter of fact. Secret Sauce sells like hotcakes. Wall Street likes it as well. Not much of a performance increase, though.

- Daniel Golding

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-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Majdi S. Abbas Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:09 PM To: Alex Bligh Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Network for Sale

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:51:30PM +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:

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If you refuse to peer with anyone at all, you can be tier-0. This can be achieved with considerable savings to phone line utilization.

Actually, we already have a tier-0. See:

http://www.opnix.net/perl/PressRelease.cgi?article=100032

(And many other things on their website.)

Particularly amusing is:

http://www.opnix.net/whatwedo/performance.shtml

--msa