Re: Tier-1 without their own backbone?

[David Diaz <techlist () smoton net>]

I guess it depends on your traffic type and destination.  Level 3 has 
a lot of connectivity to content providers such as yahoo and 
microsoft.  As Joel P pointed out they have been a reliable backbone 
with a lot of capacity.

They also have knowledgeable peering people although they lean 
towards the restrictive side on policy (starting about a 18 months 
ago)

Dave


At 12:32 -0700 8/27/03, Rick Ernst wrote:
> We are sending out feelers for adding an additional DS-3, or possibly frac
> OC-3.  One of the responses came back with "we won't be competive with
> <provider> because they don't have their own backbone.
>
> Is there a cross-reference for provider vs network backbone, or is this just
> something that we have to ask each provider for?  I "assume" that UU, Sprint,
> and AT&T are self-owned backbones, but others... ?
>
> One of the providers we are looking at is Level-3.  Any comments good/bad on
> reliability and clue?  We already have UU, Sprint, and AT&T.  I also realize
> that the "they suck less" list changes continuously... :)
>
> Thanks,
> Rick