When there are as many "tier-2"s that have a better quality network than " tier 1"s, the tiering system is meaningless.
Also... who cares? Peer yourself as many places\networks as you can, then pickup someone for the rest... based on who has a quality network in your region. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Auer" <[email protected]> To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 7:15:25 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] what tier provider is Hurricane? On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Mike Hammett < [email protected] > wrote: The tier system is utterly meaningless anymore. +1 I mean, I'm a Tier 2 network by the wikipedia definition(1) so at that point you know it's useless :) At one point it may have made sense to be a Tier 3 and only buy from T1/T2 but with some much CDN traffic peering is a must. 1: "A network that peers with some networks, but still purchases IP transit or pays settlements to reach at least some portion of the Internet."
