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The backbone that sucks least?
From: JC Dill <nanog () vo cnchost com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:44:34 -0700
On 10:31 AM 9/18/2001 -0700, dan kelley wrote: >lost in this whole mess is that their service (DS1) to >us was reasonably good. unfortunately, their >organizational sloppiness negates that for us - we'll >be dropping them as soon as other arrangements are in >place.Could you elaborate on the "other arrangements" and who you contacted when you went shopping?
We have servers colocated in 8 locations, 4 each with 2 of the big-name colo providers, one of which made news today (no points for accurate guesses). We are looking at adding new server locations in a carrier neutral location like Equinix (who else is doing multiple carrier neutral locations and has available space? who is presently doing this in Europe, in Asia?), and thus need to consider who we want to contract with for our bandwidth. It is essential that the bandwidth provider be a Tier 1 backbone such as UUNET, C&W, Qwest, MCI, Sprint, Verio, L3, AT&T, Genuity (anyone else belong in this class?). Yeah, they all suck one way or the other. But we'd rather not jump out of the frying pan only to land into the fire. Thus...
Of those, who sucks least? Does paying extra for UUNET actually get you anything extra (better customer service, better billing/accounting service, better trouble ticket tracking and reporting)?
jc
Current thread:
- Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Allen Gwinn (Sep 18)
- RE: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Walter Gray (Sep 18)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com EA Louie (Sep 18)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com dan kelley (Sep 18)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Alex Bligh (Sep 18)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Jared Mauch (Sep 18)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com mike harrison (Sep 18)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Jason Slagle (Sep 18)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Jeff Gehlbach (Sep 19)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Alex Bligh (Sep 18)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Paul Vixie (Sep 25)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Jim Popovitch (Sep 25)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Rafi Sadowsky (Sep 26)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Paul A Vixie (Sep 26)
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- RE: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Smith, Rick (Sep 18)
- RE: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 18)