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Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers
From: Bryan Socha <bryan () serverstack com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:47:59 -0400
- speed to handle your emergency support call. (recent experience, some tier1 can take a couple hours) *[EL>] * time to respond / time to resolve are good ones (hard to get them to provide the true values, though)**** Call and pretend your a customer with an emergency. You might be
surprised how long it takes the first person to be on the call with you.
- To get more specific, where is their peering in relationship to you. Strong peering not near you could mean a lot of extra latency just to get off their network.**** *[EL>] *“How many hops to their edge”? Will they admit that? can I get a traceroute? (however, this is in downtown LA so I’m guessing it’s close to the edge**** * *
This one can be harder to get any answers on depending on who you are. You can ask what locations they have most of their peering with. Also ask for a POP list they are located in. Usually they are marked with the type of service each building is (pop vs metro ring vs extension). unless it's a private peer, I woudlnt' expect any peering at locations that are not pops and you can see what is nearby your location that is a pop. Somethign else I just thought of that I do ask providers. Ask how they get into your building. If they are using some sort of metro ring between their routers make sure your not about to screw yourself with no diversity when that ring needs to be worked on. Thanks, Bryan
Current thread:
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers, (continued)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Justin M. Streiner (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers ML (Aug 28)
- RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Eric Louie (Aug 27)
- RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Justin M. Streiner (Aug 27)
- RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Eric Louie (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Jared Mauch (Aug 28)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Bill Woodcock (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Tassos Chatzithomaoglou (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Bryan Socha (Aug 27)
- RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Eric Louie (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Bryan Socha (Aug 27)
- RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Eric Louie (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Bill Blackford (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers William Herrin (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Michael Smith (Aug 27)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Eric A Louie (Aug 28)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Michael Smith (Aug 28)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 29)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Blake Dunlap (Aug 29)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Luke S. Crawford (Aug 29)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 29)
- Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers Eric A Louie (Aug 28)