What is the thing you're trying to avoid though? Connectivity via slough is still likely to go back into London to get to the cables which go east and South towards Europe.
I've seen these asks many times but the reality is the UK geography plus market dynamics doesn't make this as easy as it sounds. Why host in Manchester if you know Manchester is overly dependent on London? We have paths from Manchester to the US and Manchester to slough, probably better routes than most but I'd still question what it's diversifying against since there's more robust ways to do this such as host in Slough directly, or offshore to Amsterdam. Most "tier1s" either don't peer with most UK networks or do so in London, perhaps you would be better with a more regional tier2 player who can deliver the diversity through its concentration of UK network rather than some global player? There's a few such decent operators.. The IX Manchester members list is a good place to shortlist them. Go for someone with open peering too - no point getting a good name if they have no connectivity to anything when London goes offline! Steve On 25 Oct 2013 17:22, "Ben King" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We currently have Level 3 and NTT as our transit providers out of London > (Interxion and TH respectively), and now we want to bring a 3rd tier 1 into > Manchester TCW, however I want the utopic 'London Proof' transit and I am > not sure who can truly provide. Level 3 resolutely assure me that they are > London proof so I could move them and bring someone else into London > (though others tell me rumours that Level 3s transit in Manchester is some > dirty longline out of London). > > Cogent say their transit is out via slough - and thats sort of not london > but also I am crazy about having Cogent again. > > Any advice would be much appreciated folks. > > Regards... Ben > > -- > > Ben King <[email protected] <[email protected]>>**** > > *WarwickNet - The Business & Science Park ISP* > > Tel: 024 7699 7222** > > Mob: 07973 848007** > > http://www.warwicknet.com**** > > ** > > >
