Eliminate Dependency on Telefonica in Brazil?

Mon Jun 25 14:43:34 UTC 2001

Try Metrored, www.metrored.com. They are a company not too different
from COLT. 

Regards,
Neil.

> 
> Consider the following *hypothetical*:
> 
> Company X comes to believe that one of the best things it could do to
> achieve reliability
> on its circuits in Brazil is to reduce or eliminate its dependency on
> Telefonica
> for "last mile" support/provisioning.   Are there any options available to
> such
> a Company?  If so, which might be best: microwave, satellite, cellular, etc?
> Which vendors
> might be investigated and considered for these services?  Any difference
> between
> VPN and point to point circuits?  If you were goign to build a large scale
> web presence
> in Brazil...what's your top list of possible circuit providers? Reliability
> is valued
> over cost. I guess to put the query in nanog mailing list terms.....who
> could I go
> with to ensure I'm a good BGP neighbor in Brazil?
> 
> I know some may find the above humorous since if you insert Verizon,
> BellSouth,
> etc in place of Telefonica...the hypothetical may not change much. :-) No
> offense
> to the Bells...when I pick up the phone 99.999% of the time I have dial
> tone--which I
> appreciate. :-) But it costs $$$...   
> 
> Thanks!
> 