more tier 1 definitions was: Why so little traffic from C&W

[scott w <scott () digisle net>]

On a bright Hawaiian full-moon night some folks wrote:

> >     Breaking down?  It used to be that anyone connected directly
> >     to an exchange point was tier one, and the tiers are pretty
> >     obvious beyond that.  Now that everyone's at the exchanges,
> >     "tier one" is simply a marketing term.
>
> I believe the latest common definition of tier 1 in that of an ISP with no 
> transit.


When we started we had a nontransit, 2 cisco 7206, IP only, star topology
(with arms to 5 international POPs), one customer network.  Is this now
being defined as tier 1 since we were doing nontransit only?

scott