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Re: tiers? (fwd)
From: George Herbert <gherbert () crl com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:36:48 -0700
Does everyone agree with this, it's the only response I have received thus far (and according to the list, the sender works for a tier 1 provider). [snip] Tier 1: _Owns the fiber_, Multiple coast to coast paths of significant bandwidth
Of the large national network service providers, few actually own their own fiber. Sprint and MCI do; UUnet was bought by someone that does, PSI doesn't, AGIS doesn't, BBN doesn't, ANS doesn't. Netcom, CRL, Genunity, Verio, Exodus, Internex, and the like don't. Given that there are at least 6 major backbone providers by anyone's standards and probably more like 20, and that only 4-5 companies own the fiber, obviously there's a mismatch there. The number of companies with DS-3 backbones to 3 widely seperated interexchange points (the previous "Tier 1" definition") now is very close to 50. Owning fiber is probably not applicable. -george william herbert gherbert () crl com
Current thread:
- Re: tiers? (fwd) Danny (Jul 17)
- Re: tiers? (fwd) Owen DeLong (Jul 17)
- Re: tiers? (fwd) Robert Bowman (Jul 17)
- Re: tiers? Richard Mataka (Jul 18)
- Re: tiers? Robert Bowman (Jul 18)
- Re: tiers? Richard Mataka (Jul 18)
- Re: tiers? (fwd) Robert Bowman (Jul 17)
- Re: tiers? (fwd) Owen DeLong (Jul 17)
- Re: tiers? (fwd) Dorian R. Kim (Jul 17)
- Re: tiers? (fwd) George Herbert (Jul 17)
- Re: tiers? (fwd) Deepak Jain (Jul 18)
- silly tiers; treno Allan Chong (Jul 18)
- Re: silly tiers; treno Eric Wieling (Jul 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: tiers? (fwd) Matthew James Gering (Jul 17)