Network for Sale

Mon Feb 19 21:19:55 UTC 2001

InterNAP has done the tier-0 marketing dance for some time. Quite
successfully, as a matter of fact. Secret Sauce sells like hotcakes. Wall
Street likes it as well. Not much of a performance increase, though.

- Daniel Golding

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Majdi S. Abbas
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:09 PM
> To: Alex Bligh
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Network for Sale
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:51:30PM +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > If you refuse to peer with anyone at all, you can be tier-0. This
> > can be achieved with considerable savings to phone line utilization.
>
> 	Actually, we already have a tier-0.  See:
>
> 	http://www.opnix.net/perl/PressRelease.cgi?article=100032
>
> 	(And many other things on their website.)
>
> 	Particularly amusing is:
>
> 	http://www.opnix.net/whatwedo/performance.shtml
>
> 	--msa
>