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Re: Why so little traffic from C&W
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:03:39 -0400
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:41PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote:
I believe the latest common definition of tier 1 in that of an ISP with no transit.
I believe that "Tier-1" no longer means anything. It was a term that had meaning when the government got out of the business of running NSFNet, and created "Tier-1 Providers" that connected to "Tier-2 Providers". At that time (if perhaps only for a fairly brief time) there were actual defined tiers, and they ment something. The mutation of "tier 1" to mean "transit free" is questionable at best. After all, if you're transit free, you should just advertise that fact if you think it's important. That said, many marketing folks still want to use the term "Tier-1". When a prospective customer asks me if my employer is "Tier-1" I always respond with "What does Tier-1 mean to you", and then address their specific concerns. You get some wildly different answers too. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org
Current thread:
- Why so little traffic from C&W Sean Donelan (Jun 06)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Paul Vixie (Jun 07)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 07)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 07)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W J.D. Falk (Jun 07)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Simon Lockhart (Jun 07)
- more tier 1 definitions was: Why so little traffic from C&W scott w (Jun 07)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Leo Bicknell (Jun 08)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W bmanning (Jun 08)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Rachel Warren (Jun 10)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W J.D. Falk (Jun 07)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 RJ Atkinson (Jun 08)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 E.B. Dreger (Jun 08)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 Travis Pugh (Jun 08)
- non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) E.B. Dreger (Jun 11)
- Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) Travis Pugh (Jun 11)
- Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) J.D. Falk (Jun 11)
- Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) Charles Sprickman (Jun 11)
- Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) bmanning (Jun 11)