Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1)

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, J.D. Falk wrote:
>
> >     Well, for one thing, "transit-free" doesn't mean that you
> >     can route to all the other "transit-free" providers....
>
> Unless you do what BBN/GTE/Genuity did during the period where they phased
> in (or was it out?) the ex-Genuity datacenters.  We found lots of traffic
> heading out Sprint.  I recall someone else mentioning that Exodus and
> Above used Sprint as their "backup transit" even though all the above
> networks are "Tier 1".  We never got a clear answer from the noc on why
> the then BBN would not purchase transit for itself from itself.
>
> Out of curiousity, why is Sprint the common thread in these three
> datacenter network cases?


        Perhaps it was the 192.0.0.0/3 entry in the old RADB that
        Sprint entered?


> Charles
>
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