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Re: Most peered AS per country
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:27:24 +0200
On 28/Nov/18 14:37, Tore Anderson wrote:
Yeah, don't fall for the marketing hyperbole. A transit provider's «tier» is an extremely poor indicator of its interconnectedness and quality, especially if your traffic is regional in nature. In most cases you'll be much better off buying your IP transit from a regional «tier-2» provider, which tends to give you much better connectivity to other networks in your region - in addition to all the global connectivity that the «tier-2»'s upstream(s) provide, of course.
I find the word "tier" quite awkward... when a large global provider deploys locally in a country/region that only/mostly deals with globally-small (local) providers, the assumption is that all traffic wants to go back to the global carrier's main market (typically Europe and North America). It takes about 12 months before folk realize that this a wrong assumption to bring into the local market. Mark.
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- Most peered AS per country Mehmet Akcin (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Bill Woodcock (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Mehmet Akcin (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Bill Woodcock (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Mehmet Akcin (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Mike Hammett (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Dan Bateyko (Nov 28)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Mark Tinka (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Tore Anderson (Nov 28)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Mark Tinka (Nov 28)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Mehmet Akcin (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Bill Woodcock (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Tashi Phuntsho (Nov 28)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Mehmet Akcin (Nov 27)
- Re: Most peered AS per country Bradley Huffaker (Nov 27)