Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos.
On Apr 30, 2013, at 12:32, Thomas Schmid <sch...@dfn.de> wrote: > Am 30.04.2013 17:53, schrieb Patrick W. Gilmore: >> "Core"? Seriously? Which of these statements are true: A) Is it impossible >> for an end user or business (i.e. non-ISP) to get a direct connection to a >> "Tier 1" (whatever the hell that means) provider. B) Most traffic on the >> Internet traverses Tier 1s today. C) A Tier 1 has a different profit motive >> than a Tier 2 (whatever the hell that means) providers. D) All Tier 1 >> providers are larger than all Tier 2 providers. We'll just skip over the E) >> all of the above. > > agree - I oversimplified, but I think you got the idea ... No, I did not get the point. I am not trolling. I just do not understand what you meant. Probably because there is no "core", so your statement did not make sense. -- TTFN, patrick
