Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations

Mon Oct 28 17:31:39 UTC 1996

On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Jian Li wrote:

> > Yes it is already changing.  But as far as I can see, Global 
> > SprintLink represents the old US-centric model: GSL is the 
> > international arm of SprintLink and essentially sells bandwidth 
> > into the States.  C&W is setting itself up as a global backbone
> > provider.  
> 
> GSL offers both IPL and POP accesses, and participates local-exchange
> within country/reginal POPs. US-centric model is juct matter of economy
> and tariff between countries. If someone is willing to pay more to run a DS-3
> from Taiwan to Japan instead, I am sure there is no reason for GSL to reject 
> the order.

The point is that GSL's peering policies are radically different from 
those of SprintLink, whereas Cable & Wireless seems to have the same
policies worldwide.  Similarly, I know that GSL's prices for transit 
used to be much higher than SprintLink's and I suppose still are.

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