Recommendations for ISPs around the world
Dear colleagues, I'm at a loss here. My current project is to find "good" transit providers in those regions: South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asian-Pacific. Requirements are simple: - good regional connectivity/peerings - fair reach to "mainland" Europe (London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt) - locations close to exchanges (so we can join there, too) I'm thinking of using two transit ISPs per location (full BGP from our side, of course). I have considered MCI, BT Infonet, Verio, Reach, Sprint, for AP and/or Latin America, but they of course all tell you that they are greatly interconnected. For eastern europe I'm really at a loss, and Africa seems to lack regional connectivity. All I can found is local stuff. So, if anyone can give me a hand here, that would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Elmar. -- "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>) --------------------------------------------------------------[ ELMI-RIPE ]---
For Africa, check out Equant and BT On 10/24/05, Elmar K. Bins <elmi@4ever.de> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I'm at a loss here. My current project is to find "good" transit providers in those regions: South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asian-Pacific.
Requirements are simple:
- good regional connectivity/peerings - fair reach to "mainland" Europe (London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt) - locations close to exchanges (so we can join there, too)
I'm thinking of using two transit ISPs per location (full BGP from our side, of course).
I have considered MCI, BT Infonet, Verio, Reach, Sprint, for AP and/or Latin America, but they of course all tell you that they are greatly interconnected.
For eastern europe I'm really at a loss, and Africa seems to lack regional connectivity. All I can found is local stuff.
So, if anyone can give me a hand here, that would be greatly appreciated.
TIA, Elmar.
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"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Kim Onnel wrote:
For Africa, check out Equant and BT
For eastern europe I'm really at a loss, and Africa seems to lack regional connectivity. All I can found is local stuff.
It's a whole continent. Some countries have more isp's, richer international connectivity and roboust, internal networks, others do not. If you need connectivty in a big city in nigeria or egypt you have different options than you do in say chad. Differing regulatory regiemes, levels of political stability and vastly different levels of investment cause you options to be very different depending on where you need to go.
So, if anyone can give me a hand here, that would be greatly appreciated.
TIA, Elmar.
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"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
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