Tier-1 without their own backbone?

Wed Aug 27 21:00:35 UTC 2003

--On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 15:53:44 -0500 John Palmer <nanog at adns.net> 
wrote:

>
> I hear that Level 3 is good but do they handle small stuff like T-1?
> We may be looking to dual-home soon and will be looking around.
Remember, Level(3) bought (at least some of) genuity/bbn.

I was always impressed with the genuity folks.  We just switched a DS3 to 
the
AS3356 backbone from AS1 on Monday.  Smoothest turn up I've ever had.

LER

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Crandall" <sean at megapath.net>
> To: "'Rick Ernst'" <erond at legendz.com>; <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 15:48
> Subject: RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?
>
>
>>
>> > One of the providers we are looking at is Level-3.  Any
>> > comments good/bad on
>> > reliability and clue?  We already have UU, Sprint, and AT&T.
>> > I also realize
>> > that the "they suck less" list changes continuously... :)
>>
>> I have about 5 GB of IP transit connections from Level3 across 8 markets
>> (plus using their facilities for our backbone).  Level3 has been very
>> solid on the IP transit side.
>>
>> MFN/AboveNet has also been very good to us.
>>
>> -Sean
>>
>> Sean P. Crandall
>> VP Engineering Operations
>> MegaPath Networks Inc.
>> 6691 Owens Drive
>> Pleasanton, CA  94588
>> (925) 201-2530 (office)
>> (925) 201-2550 (fax)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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