Advice on dealing with Sprint

Thu Sep 26 09:35:54 UTC 1996

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:44:06 -0500 
 Jon Green <jon at worf.netins.net> alleged:

> Hi folks-
> 
> I have a problem that I need some advice on, and figured this was a good plac
e
> to turn.  We are attempting to connect a T1 to Sprint in order to multi-home
> our network.  Currently we are connected to multiple points on MCI's backbone
,
> and have just installed a T1 to UUnet.  We heard back from Sprint today..
> they are rejecting us as a customer because we do not use Cisco routers.
> Apparently they feel that Bay Networks routers are not capable of routing
> Internet traffic, ignoring the fact that they already peer with ANS and
> several other providers using Bay routers.
> 
I'd say take your custom elsewhere. 

Neil.
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