Definition of Tier-1

Fri Jun 8 15:45:20 UTC 2001

> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:24:25 -0400
> From: RJ Atkinson <rja at inet.org>
> 
>         Curious.  I've never heard that definition of Tier-1 before.
> The common definition is "doesn't pay any other ISP to exchange routes
> and traffic", or so I've thought for the past decade.

I've seen people colo'ed at AboveNet and Exodus claiming to be "Tier-1"
themselves.

IMESHO, "Tier-1" = provider who wishes to believe that they are something
special, but cannot provide any facts to substantiate their claim... hence
they resort to vaguely-defined-at-best sales BS.

Even if we were a "Tier-1" provider, I'd not want to use that term.  What
is the point in bragging about something with no standard definition?

Eddy

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