Cogent/Level 3 depeering

Thu Oct 6 11:33:38 UTC 2005

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, tony sarendal wrote:

> Is being a tier-1 now a good or bad sales argument when selling internet 
> access ?

Personally I think it's good strategy to multihome with one "tier-1" and 
one not so "tier-1". The ones further down the foodchain are more likely 
to be "peering whores" and therefore provide better connectivty to others 
like them.

It's more likely someone skimps on connections they pay per meg for than 
peering links, therefore it's in my expereience more likely to be 
uncongested on peering links than transit links.

So my answer to your question is "it depends". Using Tier-1:s as your only 
uplinks means everybody else is paying per meg to send traffic to you, is 
that what you want?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se