Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Cohen
On 5/4/06, Aaron Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why would anyone do that? --bill Some companies feel entitled to charging more for their routes than they would for simple transit. aaron.glenn John: Hopefully this comes

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-05 Thread Michael . Dillon
On 5/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] karoshi.com wrote: why would anyone do that? Hopefully this comes out clearly, as writing can be more confusing than speaking... My point is it is hard to do anything beyond the first AS# for any SLA that you would be paying,

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-05 Thread Todd Vierling
On 5/5/06, Peter Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully this comes out clearly, as writing can be more confusing than speaking... Are you getting at Inter AS /SLA/QOS that you would get from transit vs. best effort peering? Even that has some issues, the one that jumps out to me is

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-05 Thread John Dupuy
At 07:48 AM 5/5/2006, Peter Cohen wrote: On 5/4/06, Aaron Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why would anyone do that? --bill Some companies feel entitled to charging more for their routes than they would for simple transit.

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-04 Thread Michael . Dillon
to underline a point made previously though: Tier-1 is a routing architecture term that doesn't have any useful direct bearing in how best to select a service provider. some of the best service providers in the world are not tier-1 and some of the worst are ( i won't name members of either

Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-04 Thread John Dupuy
From an off-list discussion: Does anyone know of an ISP that has paid transit from all known SFP (Tier 1) providers? (sort of the old SAVVIS model on steroids.) John

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-04 Thread bmanning
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:25:35AM -0500, John Dupuy wrote: From an off-list discussion: Does anyone know of an ISP that has paid transit from all known SFP (Tier 1) providers? (sort of the old SAVVIS model on steroids.) John why would anyone do that? --bill

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-04 Thread Jon Lyons
Internap?[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:25:35AM -0500, John Dupuy wrote: From an off-list discussion: Does anyone know of an ISP that has paid transit from all known SFP (Tier 1) providers? (sort of the old SAVVIS model on steroids.) John why would anyone do that?--bill

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-04 Thread Jon Lyons
Internap?[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:25:35AM -0500, John Dupuy wrote: From an off-list discussion: Does anyone know of an ISP that has paid transit from all known SFP (Tier 1) providers? (sort of the old SAVVIS model on steroids.) John why would anyone do that?--bill

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-04 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 12:57 PM 5/4/2006, Jon Lyons wrote: Internap? Yes. That's what I was thinking, but too easy? -M -- Martin Hannigan(c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation(w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-04 Thread Brandon Ross
Well, I suppose that depends on what you mean by Tier 1. ;-) We do buy from a number of providers, many of which would be considered Tier 1 by many people. On Thu, 4 May 2006, Jon Lyons wrote: Internap? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:25:35AM -0500, John Dupuy wrote:

Re: Tier Zero (was Re: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-04 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 5/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why would anyone do that? --bill Some companies feel entitled to charging more for their routes than they would for simple transit. aaron.glenn

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Robert Sherrard
Sorry... I should have clarified, I wasn't thinking it had anything to do w/ fiber or no fiber... that was just a secondary question. Rob Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:38:22PM -0700, Robert Sherrard wrote: What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 02 May 2006 22:38:22 PDT, Robert Sherrard said: What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider... Usually it's defined as Tier 1's don't buy transit, Tier 2's do. Of course, it gets a lot more complicated, because you can easily have a Tier2 that's peering for 95% of its

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread bmanning
(Disclaimer: we're neither a Tier 1 or 2. And most of the routes we receive via a regional provider that treats us *very* nicely - mostly because we have them by the short-and-curlies. They piss us off too much, we turn off the phones in their NOC. ;) er... a typo? should

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 03 May 2006 06:32:24 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: er... a typo? should be... ... we turn ON the phones in their NOC. No, turning the phones *on* is what you do to their help desk. :) Turning off the phones shouldn't inconvenience a NOC that much, since most of the people there

RE: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Daniel Golding
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider... This has been answered by Richard, but to put my two cents in - you shouldn't care. There is very little correlation between performance,

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 01:58 AM 5/3/2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:38:22PM -0700, Robert Sherrard wrote: What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider... Is it possible to determine who a tier 2 (i.e. Cogent) leases fiber from? It has absolutely nothing to do with

RE: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Berkman, Scott
: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:07 AM To: Richard A Steenbergen; Robert Sherrard Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: Tier 2 - Lease? At 01:58 AM 5/3/2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:38:22PM -0700, Robert Sherrard wrote: What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 03 May 2006 07:47:20 PDT, Berkman, Scott said: Interesting to notice someone (perhaps from this list?) has removed Cogent from the T1 list. Wishful thinking from somebody carrying a grudge at Level3? (ducks) :) pgpmzdStuyLs6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Todd Underwood
so annoying. people keep trying to add several non-tier-1 providers in there. cogent 174 : no. buys transit from 2914 (NTT america/verio) btn 3491 : no. buys from savvis 3561 i believe ft 5511 : no. buys from sprint 1239 i'm pretty sure i saw some other silly ones in there, too, but i

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 3, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Todd Underwood wrote: to underline a point made previously though: Tier-1 is a routing architecture term that doesn't have any useful direct bearing in how best to select a service provider. s/routing architecture/business/ It is possible to be a Tier Two

Wikipedia watching (was: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-03 Thread William Allen Simpson
At 01:58 AM 5/3/2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_carrier As of this exact moment that I'm posting, that article is actually reasonably accurate. Of course I'm sure in 5 minutes 100 people will be Berkman, Scott wrote: Interesting to notice someone

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Jay Hennigan
Robert Sherrard wrote: What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider... We are a tier 1 provider = I am a salesperson. They are a tier 2 provider. = I am a salesperson and they are our competitor. Is it possible to determine who a tier 2 (i.e. Cogent) leases fiber from? Ask

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Marshall Eubanks
The tier nomenclature also a really good way to instigate flame fests on lists such as this. Regards Marshall On May 3, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Joe Provo wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:38:22PM -0700, Robert Sherrard wrote: What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Hannigan
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Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Sherrard
What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider... Is it possible to determine who a tier 2 (i.e. Cogent) leases fiber from? Rob

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:38:22PM -0700, Robert Sherrard wrote: What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider... Is it possible to determine who a tier 2 (i.e. Cogent) leases fiber from? It has absolutely nothing to do with fiber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_carrier As