Hi, Ben King wrote: > 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.
There are some options, for example we can provide 1273 on a direct session on a router in Manchester, with a useful amount of London resilience. But I encourage you to consider the design - you may want the same providers in both London and Manchester to avoid your traffic tromboning the UK when you have only a single interconnect with a network in the 'wrong' city to where you both have the customer traffic origination/sink. London proof means so much more than a session with a router in the correct city. Or even which direction the long haul transmission goes. Routes from the two community run exchanges in the North of England (IXManchester from LINX, and IXLeeds) are probably the closest you will get to utopia with regards to domestic reach. IXManchester does 4Gbit on a typical day, IXLeeds hit 2.5Gbit for the first time this week. Critical mass is steadily building in the North and the more people who connect to both (and interconnect widely!), the stronger all of our networks become. Andy
