We approach this in the following empirical manner. 1) Who is available to you easily and within the budget.
2) Where is the other side of the network connectivity consumers ? i.e. do you need good connectivity to Cable Network ? ATT Broadband ? Europe ? Mexico ? Latin America ? 3) What is the bulk of the traffic type ? Consumer (Video / You Tube ? Netflix ? ) Business ? etc based on the answers to above, I would look at the bgp.he.net to see each options upstream connectivity, and check with peeringdb to see what could be their peering relationships.... finding one that does not have a directly Level3 relationship would be preferred. Also, don't forget to do traffic engineering to nullify the Level3 traffic engineering, (They prefer to keep traffic on-net even if there are better paths available out of their network). Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colton Conor" <colton.co...@gmail.com> > To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 12:26:55 PM > Subject: Provider to Blend with Level3 > > We have a network that is single homed with Level3 at this time in Dallas. > They already have BGP and their own ASN and IP setup. Who would you > recommend for a second provider in Dallas to blend with Level3? Assuming > Level3 and this other provider would be the only two in the blend for a > long time to come? Client was talking to TWT, but now that they are being > bought by Level3 that doesn't make much sense. >
