RE: Sprint VS. Qwest

["Mark Borchers" <mborchers () igillc com>]

OK, given the choice between tier 1 "A" and tier 1 "B",
suppose you can show that interconnect bandwidth between
the two is underprovisioned.  Armed with that knowledge,
which of the two do you choose as your transit provider?


> -----Original Message-----
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:18:47PM -0500, dgold wrote:
> > Both Sprint and Qwest are, most would agree, transit-free, "tier 1"
> > networks. They interconnect with all other similarly large networks. How
> > much more do you want? The size of their interconnections to
> 701? I'm not
> > sure how that is useful.
>
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/sjc/sjc-sprint-oc3.html
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/iad/iad-sprint-oc3.html
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/chi/chi-sprint.html
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/nyc/nyc-sprint.html
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/lax/lax-sprint.html
>
> 'cause yeah, no "tier 1" has ever run congested to another, right?
>
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