Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

[Mike Hammett via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

I find it most useful as a warning beacon. If anyone is talking about how they are or want "Tier 1", then I need to 
back away slowly. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Mark Tinka via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> 
To: "Tomas Lynch" <tomas.lynch () gmail com> 
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 5:26:21 AM 
Subject: Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? 




On 4/Sep/20 23:41, Tomas Lynch wrote: 








Oh, yes! Let's not start another "what's a tier one" war! 


Oh no, let's :-). 

We get over here in Africa as well. Local operators either calling themselves Tier 1, or being called a Tier 1. 
Nonsensical. 

Years back, our Marketing team asked me to comment on the use of "Tier" for our literature. You can probably imagine 
what I said :-). 

For me, it's simple - you are present in X cities or Y cities. Tier is useless because the Internet does not come from 
a single country or a single operator. And saying a network is "big" or "small" is subjective to everyone's 
perspective, so that doesn't help either. 

So you're present here, and present there. That's it. 

It's 2020 :-). 

Mark.