Provider to Blend with Level3

Fri Feb 6 20:47:47 UTC 2015

I don't know how accurate it is, but here's a site that more plainly spells out upstream\peer\customer: 

https://radar.qrator.net/ 

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

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

From: "Faisal Imtiaz" <faisal at snappytelecom.net> 
To: "Colton Conor" <colton.conor at gmail.com> 
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 2:15:29 PM 
Subject: Re: Provider to Blend with Level3 

We approach this in the following empirical manner. 

1) Who is available to you easily and within the budget. 

2) Where is the other side of the network connectivity consumers ? 
i.e. do you need good connectivity to Cable Network ? ATT Broadband ? Europe ? Mexico ? Latin America ? 

3) What is the bulk of the traffic type ? Consumer (Video / You Tube ? Netflix ? ) Business ? etc 

based on the answers to above, I would look at the bgp.he.net to see each options upstream connectivity, and check with peeringdb to see what could be their peering relationships.... finding one that does not have a directly Level3 relationship would be preferred. 

Also, don't forget to do traffic engineering to nullify the Level3 traffic engineering, (They prefer to keep traffic on-net even if there are better paths available out of their network). 

Faisal Imtiaz 
Snappy Internet & Telecom 
7266 SW 48 Street 
Miami, FL 33155 
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 

Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: Support at Snappytelecom.net 

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Colton Conor" <colton.conor at gmail.com> 
> To: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org> 
> Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 12:26:55 PM 
> Subject: Provider to Blend with Level3 
> 
> We have a network that is single homed with Level3 at this time in Dallas. 
> They already have BGP and their own ASN and IP setup. Who would you 
> recommend for a second provider in Dallas to blend with Level3? Assuming 
> Level3 and this other provider would be the only two in the blend for a 
> long time to come? Client was talking to TWT, but now that they are being 
> bought by Level3 that doesn't make much sense. 
> 