Qwest Transit

Wed Apr 3 01:44:35 UTC 2002

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:38:01PM -0800, Gironda, Andre wrote:

  We probably get Qwest transit cheaper than you, and yes, it is the
  cheapest in the industry.  Not too bad considering Qwest is definitely
  in the top ten largest Tier 1 providers, and probably even the 3rd or
  4th largest transit-AS networks according to a recent CAIDA study:
  http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/rank_as/

dude, the word `transit' isn't even on that page,
don't blame transit rankings on caida. 
that page is a ranking of outdegree based
on massive IP-level topology data from
about two weeks of caida (active) 
probed IP topology monitoring

you'd have to pay us a lot more to 
make up numbers about _transit_;
yeesh it's hard enough making up numbers
about topology, routing, and workload.

<cough>
k