>Hi,
>Does anyone have a recommendation or horror story for best ISP to work with
>for implementing BGP?
Well, BGP, in and of itself, is a tool. It may or may not be the
right tool for a given problem. It may be that for a given problem,
you need more than one tool. For that matter, I've had clients that
thought they wanted BGP, and in fact it had very little to do with
their problem.
So what problem are you trying to solve?
Can you articulate what routing policy you want to have with the
external provider?
What are your service level requirements? Your budget? Do you want to
manage the BGP router or have the provider do it?
>I am thinking of picking between Worldcom, ATT and Qwest.
All are capable of doing an excellent job. All of them are
sufficiently large companies to guarantee a certain number of
clueless people.
It may depend on where you are. Oddly, I've had far better
experience with AT&T in Nashville than in Washington DC. Ignoring my
irritation at AT&T Wireless, I've generally had good experience with
them -- except on a US government project with presidential priority.
Go figure.
I would get proposals from each one, including SLAs, support
policies, and pricing. I can tell good and bad stories about each one.
Admittedly, you don't need to be a big carrier to make silly
proposals. I recently asked my DSL provider to quote on fractional
T1 access. The account is billed to Nortel. They proposed a Cisco
router.
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