Mexico City Internet Bandwidth suggestions

Fri Apr 30 13:47:46 UTC 2004

Thanks, Brian, for your response.   If we were to take a rough poll,
which one of the two, Alestra or Avantel, would get the prize for
highest uptime/availability?   I'll call both and check them out, just
curious how you'd rank them.  Thanks again for helping me find these!!
Paul

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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Moore [mailto:bmoore at amungus.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 09:38 PM
To: Paul Jasa
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Mexico City Internet Bandwidth suggestions
Importance: High

> I was curious if anyone could share any suggestions and experiences 
> with providers of internet bandwidth ranging from T1 to OC3 in Mexico
City.
> Telmex is the obvious in-house Mexico monopoly, but was wondering if 
> there were any other legitimate, competitive providers in the game 
> over there.

Alestra (affiliated in some way with AT&T), and Avantel (affiliated in
some way with Worldcom) gave us reasonable pricing (reasonable for
Mexico City
anyway) on E3/T3 solutions.  A couple years ago they were peered with
Telmex in Monterrey I think, which was acceptable given the difference
in pricing (Telmex and GBLX were both *much* costlier).

We got an uplink to both and run bgp.  It's been fairly solid.  When
one's down, the other's up :)

Brian

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